[scene] A medical board of directors congratulates each other on another successful day of blaming mysterious surges in heart attacks and pediatric strokes on the stubbornness of deplorables while cashing big checks from the Umbrella Corporation. The party slows down, the trendy female president gets in the elevator… alone… checks her smartphone as it slowly moves… humming sounds… descending to the parking garage… it jerks to a stop… the lights go out… the doors open…

President of California medical board tweets ‘terrifying’ encounter with anti-vaccine group

Says four men confronted her in a dark parking garage

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By Shiv Sudhakar, 11 December 2021

The Walnut Creek Police Department, located in California’s Bay Area, is investigating a recent incident involving several members of an anti-vaccine group who “followed and confronted” the president of the California medical board Kristina D. Lawson, according to the New York Times.

“On Monday, I was followed and confronted by a group that peddles medical disinformation, promotes fake COVID-19 treatments, and is under investigation by Congress for stealing millions of dollars from consumers. It was a terrifying experience,” Lawson wrote on Twitter.

How did she know who they were? When conservative authorities get confronted, it’s usually by faceless ninja wannabes with spiked gloves and buckets of acid. BLM and Pantifa don’t wear name tags.

They identified themselves as being part of America’s Frontline Doctors, wearing their group’s logos on their jackets with microphones, telling law enforcement they only wanted to interview her for an upcoming video they were producing, but Lawson emphatically said the group never contacted her an interview.

“We’re the people you’ve been slandering [show ID] and you haven’t been returning our calls!”

“AMBUSH! AMBUSH! GAIA SAVE MEEEEE!!!”

Kristina Lawson, or discount Gretchen Whitmer? Discuss.

The group has propagated misleading claims of the COVID-19 virus, including hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment and masks did not decrease the spread of the virus, according to the Times.

While it’s interesting that nobody ever realized that a virus can be stopped by taping an old sock over your air holes until Globohomo came along, what’s REALLY interesting is that doing so only stops one kind of virus.

Lawson first noticed someone flying a drove over her home and a suspicious rental SUV parked outside her home this past Monday morning, but “that evening, when I left the office building and entered the parking garage four men jumped out of the [same] SUV with cameras and recording equipment and confronted me as I tried to get into my car to drive home,” Lawson recalled.

“Instead, they ambushed me in a dark parking garage when they suspected I would be alone,” she said.

And she lived to tell the tale! The worm turns when a liberal gets targeted by ambush journalism! How did she not see this coming? She’s one of the highest-level people involved in ruining millions of innocent lives… and she’s surprised when they showed up in person after she ignored them online?

Does she think the unvaccinated are not real people? That we don’t really exist? That’s the point of the mandates, you know. Once the Muscovite rabbit warrens have been purged of dissidents, those newfangled extermination orders won’t affect anybody that Normie knows or will ever even meet. Our suffering will be nothing but an abstract concept to the ivory tower types.

Unless we drive by during the brief moments they rush between secured locations.

“As a mother, I felt deeply violated and scared for my kids in our own home — and I feared for my own personal safety as a woman being surrounded by strange men in a dark parking garage.”

Playing the victim card! “They tried to rayyyype me! and criticize me for destroying their jobs and lives on blatantly false medical pretexts.” Don’t worry, Krusty Lawson, purebloods aren’t the Chicongo type. But you’d have more respect for us if we were.

Lt. Holley Connors, a Walnut Creek Police Department spokeswoman, confirmed, “At this time, there is no evidence of a crime, but the Walnut Creek Police Department will continue to follow up on the incident.”

Credit to Krusty, she did at least bother to file a police report in addition to accusing them of stalking, ambush, rayyype and scaring a mom on social media.

Most of my readers are probably not into Japanime enough to appreciate the massive cultural importance of Cowboy Bebop. That’s okay. What you need to know is 1. it’s a very popular show, 2. Netflix made a live-action adaptation that died on arrival and 3. the eye candy was intentionally deleted by an intersectional feminist in order to disappoint the males watching the show.

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Canceled by Netflix After One Season

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By James Hibberd & Borys Kit, 9 December 2021

That was fast: Netflix has canceled its ambitious, widely hyped and, ultimately, widely disappointing anime adaptation Cowboy Bebop, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The move comes less than three weeks after the show’s Nov. 19 debut on the streaming service.

The space Western had a rough reception. The 10-episode series garnered only a 46 percent positive critics rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Fans seemed to agree, giving the show a 56 percent positive audience score on the site. According to Netflix’s Top 10 site, the series has racked up almost 74 million viewing hours worldwide since its debut — so it got plenty of sampling out of the gate — but it plummeted 59 percent for the week of Nov. 29 to Dec. 5.

The Cowboy Bebop series starred John Cho, Mustafa Shakir and Daniella Pineda as three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. From the show’s description: “They form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them.”

The Hollywood Reporter‘s Angie Han wrote that Cowboy Bebop was “faithful to a fault” with “leaden pacing” and “the sharp [anime] visuals [were] reduced to muddy CG, the playful humor translated as phony laughter, the lived-in grittiness replaced with shoddy-looking sets” and that the remake “seems to have no point at all.”

Sounds more like “feminist to a fault”. Here comes the smoking sixgun!

Interview: Cowboy Bebop Costume Designer Jane Holland

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By Jacki Jing, 17 November 2021

A large part of what makes the Cowboy Bebop anime such an enduring classic is its distinctive aesthetic style, of which costume design is no doubt a significant component. If Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the anime were to recapture the charm of its predecessor, then what the characters wear is something they cannot afford to mishandle. However, costumes do not work the same way in real life as they may look in animated form, so how does the adaptation account for that while still staying true to the characters’ core personalities? Anime News Network reached out to costume designer Jane Holland to find out.

How did you get brought on to work on Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the legendary anime Cowboy Bebop?

I live in New Zealand and am part of the film community here who work on international projects.

She ducked the question. In fact, Kiwi quarantines being what they are, her answer raises even more questions. Why was Jane Holland special enough to justify the effort of reaching overseas, for what every breathing female has at least some competency in… deciding what outfit to wear?

Whoa! Here’s one vote for “demonic possession”. Keeping the production values inside the ‘family’!

Did you know about the anime before you were hired or did you have to do some deeper research? Break down your whole process – what did you immediately do after getting hired? What research did you do?

I didn’t know about the anime.

Bad sign.

I read the script and really liked the energy and style, and then watched the anime. Immediately, I was hooked in by the aesthetic, but the thing I loved was the quirk and contrast – the surreal slow-motion moments of glass or a rose falling in the middle of some crazy action scene against that stunning soundtrack. To me, the storytelling style is surprising and unexpected and I found the anime seriously cool.

Immediately after getting hired, I consulted the youth in my world who watch anime! And they issued a warning, ‘Māmā Holland, don’t f*** it up’. I took them seriously. When the trailer came out, the first thing I did was to check in to see if I did ok.

And how badly did Mama Holland f*** it up?

There was a lot of scrutiny over Faye’s costume (which was pretty revealing in the anime) – how did you approach Faye’s outfit, and how did you reach your decision/design? How did you react to the big online reaction to Faye’s outfit on the Netflix show? Is there anything you want to say to fans about it?

Faye Valentine is Cowboy Bebop’s eye-candy protagonist. This is what we’re talking about:

One guess which is the original and which is the “Jane Holland adaptation”.

It wasn’t so much about not being revealing (Her shorts are, in fact, very short. Her top has a zip which sits pretty low – the red outfit in the trailer is hardly demure), it was about not being gratuitous. I was looking for the 2021 version of Faye for a signature costume that worked for who she is and what she needs to do. She has a leather jacket because it’s a functional garment that will stand the rigours of her job – a bounty hunter. She wears combat boots for the same reason with a thigh high extension that embraces the design lines of the anime.

HOLLAND INTENTIONALLY DELETED FAYE’S SEX APPEAL, CALLING IT “GRATUITOUS”! That’s how badly she f***ed it up.

I wanted Daniella to be able to bring her Faye without me inflicting a costume that would lock her into one facet of the character and inhibit her practically – so, with the anime as a springboard, and drilling down into character, I went for a street cool and sassy interpretation of the design lines of the anime. The design is… well… It’s designed by a woman, made by predominantly women for a woman to wear and it functions for an action show.

Designed by a feminist, for function without any form that a man could appreciate.

To the fans I would say … you know as well as I do, there’s way more to Faye than a skimpy costume. For me, and I hope for you too, the spirit of Faye Valentine is alive and well in the series.

The spirit of Faye Valentine didn’t last three weeks in her Ghostbusters Reboot wardrobe. There are other fan complaints for why the series died so quickly… but intentionally erasing the eye candy is surely a big part of it.

How did you get into costume design and what have been the ups and downs of this career?

I studied English and Drama alongside a science degree at university and found my way to a film set through drama.

Epic STEM fail!

…So many highlights and I’m always learning. I just worked with my partner and kids on a local low-budget Maori supernatural drama – magic.

“My partner”? Holland is either lesbian or butch. Either way, I wasn’t far off about demonic possession.

The ‘downs’… I guess I carry frustration about the recognition of the Costume Department. We are a highly trained and qualified department and represent the lived-in diversity of what many productions these days aspire to be on screen. There is still work to do behind the scenes in terms of pay parity, value, and visibility. As a woman I am generally a minority, and sometimes the only one at the decision-making table during production. I always thought the film industry was progressive because of the stories we tell and collaborative way of working, but when you start to agitate for change in pay, and highlight the difficulty marginalised people have speaking up, you realise that it’s no different to any other power structure. Finally things are starting to shift, but we’re not there yet.

Holy Tolerance In Diversity, Batman! She’s a ball-busting battleaxe! And Cowboy Bebop is her latest victim.

Lest you think this wardrobe malfunction was, in any way, accidental:

Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Faye Costume Change Is A Good Thing

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Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop has opened up about which parts of the arrangement are getting present day updates, and Faye’s famous outfit is set to change.

Netflix is changing a famous part of Cowboy Bebop for their real life arrangement: Faye’s outfit. Cattle rustler Bebop is one of the most well known and cherished anime ever…

…yet the news that a cutting edge arrangement is being created for Netflix left numerous fans with stop about whether the first can be improved and what notable subtleties might be changed. On account of Faye’s noteworthy ensemble, be that as it may, the change is something to be thankful for.

“We’re changing it and you’ll like it!” Likely not.

Faye Valentine is one of the most adored characters on the arrangement. She’s an abundance tracker who lost her feeling of self after she’s hit with amnesia when pulled out of cryo-rest. Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) will play Faye in the arrangement, however she won’t look how fans recall the character. Faye’s scanty look comprising of shorts, red coat, and thigh-high stockings is unquestionably somewhat unbalanced, in actuality. It’s the sort of style that is cliché of numerous anime and intended to be attractive to acquire crowds, however this new arrangement works in an alternate medium.

No crowds were attracted by her new outfit. This was the intended, stated purpose of the wardrobe change.

This change is really advantageous for the character, since Faye is in no way, shape or form a sexual character — in spite of how sexualized her outfit is.

In any case, ensembles and hairdos are a component of adjustments that watchers hope to be changed. There are substantially more significant subtleties to be worried about, and as long as this adaptation of Faye sounds valid, it’s truly not significant how she dresses. Everything considers, it seems as though it will be a similar Cowboy Bebop toward the day’s end.

I’ve had infections that lasted longer than this series. It deserved to die because it hated its core audience of young men.

The Caldor Fire was one of California’s recent big fires. It threatened the famous resort community of Lake Tahoe and among other damages, burned the Kirkwood ski resort where I personally used to go cross-country skiing. I was naturally interested when two men were arrested for arson. It’s no secret that waves of college-trained arsonists have been lighting my state ablaze.

But the case is looking… odd.

Father and son are arrested on suspicion of starting devastating Caldor wildfire that destroyed homes forcing thousands to flee Lake Tahoe and scorching 346sq-miles of land

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By Rachel Bunyan, 8 December 2021

A father and son were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting the devastating Caldor wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities earlier this year, authorities said.

The guy had a father in his life? Could still be a Marxist vandal but not common.

David Scott Smith, 66, and his son, Travis Shane Smith, 32, are accused of reckless arson in a warrant issued before formal charges are filed, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s office said.

Now I’m smelling a Narrative for sure. Per Breitbart, it was a Ramey warrant, which is issued by a judge upon probable cause provided by a police officer with no involvement from a grand jury or district attorney. The typical use of such a warrant is for weekend/holiday arrests when the DA’s office is closed.

But this arrest happened on a Wednesday? That means somebody did an end run around the El Dorado County District Attorney’s office.

The district attorney’s office said [on Twitter] the case was developed with the U.S. Forest Service, California´s firefighting agency and the California Department of Justice, with help from the Sacramento County District Attorney´s crime lab.

Typically, a DA will hog the credit for any high-profile arrest such as large-scale arson. But here, the first thing the DA said… even before charges… is all the other agencies who’ve been involved with the case.

Hmm.

Mark Reichel, the attorney for both men, said they were arrested Wednesday afternoon and that reckless arson means starting a blaze by accident but ‘to such a degree that it was considered reckless.’

So, not arson at all. While criminal charges for involuntary crimes can be appropriate… a recent post discussed both involuntary manslaughter and Alec Baldwin… these two men are accused of accidentally starting a fire then trying to put it out, and were arrested without the typical process of law. Not to say ‘without the due process of law’.

Reichel said he did not know details of the accusation, such as how authorities allege the fire was set.

He said Travis Smith is an electrician and was with his father near where the fire started. The son called 911 to report seeing flames, Reichel said.

The son made several 911 calls because the calls kept dropping in the rugged area, and both men also warned campers about the fire, Reichel said.

That’ll be a difficult criminal case to prosecute. A civil case could wreck them because accidents can still impute financial liabilities… but there’s no criminal intent here, if they alerted authorities and neighbors right away.

‘Neither one has ever been in trouble with the law in their life. They´re very law-abiding people,’ he said.

The Smiths are not the Pantifa I was looking for.

The pair have a scheduled court appearance on Friday, Reichel said.

Ramey warrants must have formal charges applied within 48 hours of the arrest.

‘There has been no evidence submitted into a court subject to my cross-examination … that proves any of the prosecution´s evidence yet. So I urge everyone to wait and hear what really happened before they form any opinions,’ Reichel added.

Fair enough. *A few days pass*

Father, son plead not guilty to starting Caldor Fire

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By AP, 10 December 2021

PLACERVILLE — A father and son charged with starting a massive California wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities earlier this year pleaded not guilty in court Friday.

The El Dorado County prosecutor’s office charged David Scott Smith, 66, and Travis Shane Smith, 32, with reckless arson. The office also charged the son with illegal conversion or manufacture of a machine gun and both men of illegal possession of a firearm silencer.

I was not expecting to see firearm charges.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to all charges, said Emily Idleman, assistant to the chief of investigations in the district attorney’s office.

The men were arrested Wednesday and remain in El Dorado County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail each. A bail reduction hearing is scheduled for Monday.

Had they been accused of murder, bail would have been zero. /sarc

The criminal complaints do not specify how the machine gun and silencer tie into the Caldor Fire and the DA’s office has not offered an explanation.

The complaints said both men illegally possessed a firearm silencer between Aug. 11 and Sept. 23 and that Travis Smith converted or manufactured a machine gun between Aug. 9 and Aug. 14.

The Caldor Fire’s official start date is August 14. The implication would be that they were trying out a silenced, homemade firearm that somehow triggered the fire.

Note that this being California, “machine gun” can mean anything from an A-10’s GAU-8 to a bolt-action with a bump stock. There’s no reason to put a silencer on something fully automatic… you just can’t silence that much explosives. Silencers don’t actually make things silent at the best of times.

So, we’re probably talking about an AR with a homemade silencer. That could get hot enough to spark a fire but one notices that 1. the DA office isn’t actually saying that and 2. they’re accused of having a silencer for a month after it presumably caught fire and burned down half a forest.

It could be true the arrest is legit but I have doubts.

Politics makes strange bedfellows. The Christian Post’s executive editor, Richard Land, has an academic background. No connection to the military-industrial complex or Deep State other than a stint at Oxford. That didn’t stop Land from calling for America-sponsored war in Ukraine so hard that he forgot to explain how international arms dealing is what Jesus would do.

The Ukraine: A litmus test for Western civilization

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Opinion by Richard D. Land, CP Executive Editor, 10 December 2021

If there’s a case to be made that Potato Joe is acting morally by involving USA in WW3 for the exclusive benefit of his foreign-born cronies on the far side of the planet from anything that might be considered “American national security” then I’d love to hear it.

Once again, the specter of armed conflict and military aggression is casting its deadly and ominous shadow over Europe. Vladimir Putin, the Russian oligarch and old KGB colonel who has said that the “greatest geopolitical tragedy of the century” was the collapse of the “evil empire” of the old Soviet Union, is threatening to invade the sovereign country of Ukraine.

With no evidence but a single quote and the guy’s resume, Dick accuses Putin of being the real villain. Granted that a KGB background means Putin doesn’t run a puppy-rescue charity in his spare time, it’s no proof that he starts wars for fun.

Everyone needs to understand that Putin cannot fulfill his life’s ambition to rebuild the old Soviet Union under the banner of Russia without putting Ukraine once again under Russian control and rule.

Multiple citations needed, as wikipedia would put it.

For example, the old Soviet Union had a population of just over 293 million people when it ceased to exist as a political entity in 1991. Today, Russia has a population of 146 million people. Ukraine has a population of 41.5 million people. If you combine the two countries’ populations, you have 187 million people or approximately 65% of the population of the former Soviet Union.

Gaining population is the dumbest possible reason to risk a global war. What, no mention of Ukrainian oil industry as a possible Putin motive? What a curious omission.

Putin has already forcibly put Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine back under Russian control and now he is casting a covetous eye on the rest of Ukraine and all its tremendous natural resources.

They tell you what their enemies did… but they never tell you why their enemies did it. And again, Land refuses to mention oil. Just a vague reference to “natural resources”.

Why would Putin’s Russia threaten to invade Ukraine now and amass troops along the border? Quite simply, the profound weakness and odd obtuseness of the Biden administration is more temptation than the Putins of the world can withstand.

HAHAHA! One accusation that NOBODY has made of the Bidenreich is their reluctance to break American eggs for an omelet. The first thing Biden did in office was a strong-armed sabotage of the American energy infrastructure.

Hey, isn’t the Ukraine strategically important for its energy infrastructure?

When the bad actors in the world are confronted with the opportunity to further long-held territorial ambitions and their national “interests” and the only thing standing in their way is the bluster and empty talk of the Biden foreign policy team, they are almost certain to act.

Dick is projecting more fantasy that Netflix. It’s Biden that is desperate for war. No, scratch that. Biden’s handlers want to expend the American Empire that they’re losing control of such that 1. they get a final use out of it and 2. America is reduced to such rubble that whoever’s next in control won’t get a turn. Biden himself wants rice pudding instead of chocolate because his diaper feels extra-chunky today.

And Richie Land is playing along! That’s NOT what Jesus would do… risk His people’s survival for a third party’s gain in a distant war.

The Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, and the Iranians, among other bad actors, are taking notes and preparing aggressions of their own. The greatest danger to world peace for the vast majority of the world’s population is American weakness or lack of resolve to resist aggression by the bad actors and bullies of the world.

Fuck. You. Dick.

Humanity’s only hope for world peace is the American military’s continued, aggressive and unchallenged domination of every single country on the planet? Because bullies are bad? America is today’s worst offender of national sovereignty!

No more White Savior. We should have listened to George Washington and stayed forever out of Europe, then listened to Ben Franklin and forever banned the little hats from North America.

As Putin amassed troops on the Ukraine border, President Biden ruled out the use of military force and said that NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine “is not on the table.” Instead, Biden told Putin that Russia would face “economic consequences like none he’s ever seen” if he invaded Ukraine.

I am not advocating that American military personnel be involved in combat with Russians in Ukraine, but how foolish (and may I say, “stupid!”) to announce that in advance and remove any hesitancy on Putin’s part.

“We should have told Russia that we’re willing to fight a total war to get Ukraine into NATO with no intention of making good on that bluff.” May I say, “STUPID!”

But good news, Dick, Potato Joe is a shameless liar. When Diaper Deuce says “deploying NATO troops is not on the table”, it means we already have Special Forces downrange and building landing zones. Even a casual perusal of today’s military headlines indicates that war is in the air.

The situation is complicated by the fact that in 2008, NATO entered into an arrangement with Ukraine as a “partner,” but not a member of NATO (Ukraine has sent soldiers to fight on several NATO missions such as Iraq and Afghanistan.)

Mr. Putin views Ukraine as “an inalienable part of Russia,” an opinion not shared by a majority of Ukrainians themselves. NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was founded in 1949 to resist Soviet aggression in Europe or, as was infamously explained by a British general, “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down!”).

That was NATO Secretary-General Lord Ismay explaining that one of NATO’s duties was to prevent America from returning to an isolationist political worldview post-WW2. Land quoted an imperialist refusing to allow USA to NOT be imperialist, in the middle of a call for war against imperialists because imperialism is naughty.

Christ doesn’t do hypocrisy.

Another important factor to consider in the Ukrainian situation is the nuclear equation. In 1991, when the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the newly independent Ukraine (inheriting part of Moscow’s nuclear arsenal) was for one brief moment the world’s third-leading nuclear power. Ukraine had control of over 1,800 nuclear weapons, more than any nation except the U.S. and Russia.

The Clinton administration, rightly concerned about nuclear proliferation and about these weapons falling into the hands of terrorists, made it a high priority to urge Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons for economic and security guarantees. Ukraine did so in return for the “Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances” in which Ukraine gave up its nukes and signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Russia, Britain and the U.S. pledged to protect Ukraine’s “territorial integrity.”

This pledge has proven to be the emptiest of promises as the Russian aggression in Crimea and its threat to seize further Ukrainian territory illustrates vividly.

This is not at all the situation in Ukraine. Mr. Land never mentions Biden bribes, oil pipelines or anything that makes the Ukraine situation existential to the Globalists, then he rants “Russia wants to invade in order to gain 40 million new citizens that would rather die than be Russian!” If Land is not actively deceiving people into supporting World War Ukraine then he’s a special brand of willfully ignorant. I will link to a better description of Russia’s interest in the region below.

What should America and her fellow Western European allies (Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, etc.) do? They should commence immediately to arm the frontline states from the Baltic to the Black Sea to make it very painful and costly for the Russians to use military force.

We should not send American or Western European troops, but sophisticated weaponry (stinger missiles, the most advanced anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons) beginning first with the Ukrainians and then the other frontline states.

We should do our best to make Ukraine the military equivalent of an angry porcupine, making the cost in Russian lives too expensive for Putin to justify it to his people.

That’s how banksters and chickenhawks make war, not statesmen. “We’ll just buy the victory. No need for skin in the game. They wouldn’t dare do with bullets what we do with gold. And afterwards, we can extract usury from the winner!”

Such thinking… “we won’t have to involve our own troops”… is dangerously, cowardly, ignorantly stupid. Harmless arms shipments on the passenger liner Lusitania, remember? That got us into WW1. WW2? The Lend-Lease Act, and when Toothbrush was too savvy for that to work, Japan was provoked into Pearl Harbor. Today? It’ll just be harmless, massive-scale arms dealing to the Ukrainians and anybody else anti-Russia. Because Muh Freedumb! Hugs and kisses from the people undermining the Second Amendment.

No more brother wars!

Land never even mentions Christ Jesus or Scripture in this warticle. Is this what Jesus would do, play favorites whenever one nation opposes another? Would Jesus gift enough ordnance to one side of a conflict that it easily obliterates the other side, then smirk and say there’s no blood on His hands?

After all, the Ukrainians are not asking us to spill our blood for their freedom. They are asking us to give them the weapons to defend themselves against Russian aggression.

Are we talking about nukes specifically? Because they kept the rest of their military weapons.

Those noble Ukrainian government officials! Wishing only to live in peace and freedom and Dumbocracy! Who paid huge bribes to now-Resident Joseph Biden for none-of-our-business!

We owe a debt of honor to the Ukrainians. We as a nation promised them that if they gave up their nuclear weapons, we and our allies would protect them from Russian invasion. Will we fulfill our promise, give them weapons to make invasion a heavier price than the Russians are willing to pay, or will we go back on our word?

On that “debt of honor to the Ukrainians” note, I found this blog post that offers a different and more accurate perspective.

The Truth About the Ukraine

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By JD, 9 December 2021

I included an active link because the article and comments are worth reading. Here is the relevant excerpt.

As the media and international leaders point their fingers at Vladimir Putin for the current situation in the Ukraine, I thought I would take us on a trip down Memory Lane. I’m no fan of Putin or Russia, but the truth needs to be told.

First, let’s remember that Barack Obama famously said he’d like a third term where he hid in the shadows and controlled the actual President. First, that should have sent a shudder down our collective spines as the very thought of a Shadow President is anathema to the “Democracy” that they keep saying is “under attack”. It sure is.

Look at the current Administration and see how many Obama staffers are in it…

Even John Kerry is back!

Many years ago, NATO, the EU, and Russia all signed a treaty that guaranteed that all parties would not influence the Ukraine, and that the Ukraine would remain politically independent. The MSM and UN would have you believe that the annexation of Crimea was Russia violating that agreement.

Russia doesn’t want NATO for a neighbor because NATO’s original purpose was waging war against Russia. Thus, it would agree to such an arrangement… to have Ukraine be a buffer state. NATO refused to respect that previous agreement…

BUT: The Ukraine had already been given a Membership Action Plan to join NATO, along with Georgia, which violated that prior agreement. Russia no longer felt bound. Russia invaded Georgia over their NATO ascension plans in 2008.

Leaked audio has revealed that none other than Victoria Nuland was involved in the revolution that toppled democratically elected President Yanukovych. She is heard discussing replacing him with Yatsenyuk, whom she refers to as “YATS”, implying a close relationship. Who was President in 2014? Who is likely the ACTUAL President today?

I really, really like the theory that Obama is Biden’s puppetmaster. After all, he was Biden’s puppetmaster the first time around.

We already knew that the Ukrainian Revolution was a Barack Obama-led “color revolution” that they bragged about, but the question is, “Why did Yanukovych have to go?”. Despite the media singing the nebulous term “corruption” and “ties to Russia”, the TRUTH is that he refused to sign an EU membership treaty, but he had a legal basis. The Ukrainian Parliament, in compliance with previous treaty about Ukraine remaining politically independent, needed to pass new legislation authorizing the President to sign such a treaty. When they didn’t, he refused to sign it and the revolution began.

Make no mistake, it was a violent coup, planned, funded, and directed by the United States. No big deal, we do it all the time. The side we wanted won, right? Yanukovych was out, right? WRONG.

When Russian forces extracted Yanukovych for his safety as Right Sektor was taking over the Capitol, The Parliament held a vote on removing Yanukovych from office, since he could no longer fulfill his duties. They needed a 75% vote but DID NOT get it. The US & UN still recognized Yatsenyuk as the new Interim President, despite the fact that Yanukovych had not been properly removed from office.

We call that a coup when other countries do it. When we do it, we call it the “will of the people”.

Well said.

Mr. Land, if there’s a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine then we’ll be the bad actors. We’ll be the side that God holds guilty. And when I say “we”, I mean YOU, Mr. Land, you and the other fools, traitors and/or war profiteers lusting for this conflict and thinking it won’t blow back in a horrible way.

I don’t know why Land chose to support the Bidenreich. Maybe it’s a generational inability to think of America as the bad guys. Maybe it’s child-sized skeletons in the closet. Maybe Hunter Biden visited with a suitcase full of ‘reasons’. But I do know that he didn’t even try to communicate a Christian justification for a proxy war against Russia, in an article posted on a Christian-interest website.

A whimsical post today.

Back in my youth, a raccoon nearly murdered me. I was doing a job for a city that involved opening up its manholes and checking what was underneath. It was partly a fiber optic upgrade project and partly, the only employee who had a map of the city’s underground infrastructure had retired with no apprentices or newfangled “data bases” in his wake.

You would be surprised what governments are able to lose. Los Angeles once lost the air rain siren network that it built for the Cold War. As in, they didn’t know where the sirens physically existed anymore or how to activate them if the Russians invaded. Which the Bidenreich says is still a thing.

Anyway, I put up my safety cones in a street intersection, yanked the top off a manhole that proved to be a storm drain and screamed as a Coon in a ski mask jumped up and took a swipe at me! Actually, it was a raccoon as terrified of me as I was spooked by it, and I stumbled backwards out of my safety cone area into traffic while it fled deeper into the underworld.

No cars were passing, thankfully, otherwise I wouldn’t be here making double-entendre race jokes about coons. The world would have been less. So I got back up, made my measurements and work (and my heart) resumed normality.

Moral of the story: trash pandas depend upon the surprise round to win.

While hanging Christmas lights, a 70-year-old woman fights off insane raccoon attack by putting the ornery 40-pound beast in a headlock: ‘I could hear bones breaking in his neck’

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A 70-year-old Massachusetts woman squared off against a presumably rabid raccoon that attacked her while she was hanging Christmas lights in her own yard . and lived to tell the tale.

Lancaster resident Donna Sanginario was putting up festive holiday lights around the exterior of her home when she said a 40-pound raccoon leapt toward her face and latched onto her arms with its claws and jaws, WHDH-TV reports.

*Mental fantasy of Grandma on a ladder, hanging Christmas lights on the eaves, when a rabid raccoon leaps at her like an Alien face hugger.* Hee hee. But as I’ve learned in the barrios of L.A., that’s not how raccoons behave. They don’t hang out on rooftops, during the day, lying in wait. They’re nocturnal trash pandas, not transplanted jaguars.

This is one of the sillier Kung-Fu Princess stories I’ve heard lately. Let’s get into the details and Christmas Spirit!

Sanginario shared her disturbing story in a Facebook post which read, “This past Wednesday around 4 pm. I was putting some lights around bushes in front of my home. I could hear this strange noise coming from the street. I turned around to see what the noise was and I was staring at a huge raccoon about 10 feet away.”

Okay, maybe it was rabid. Unless 4pm is twilight now in Massachusetts?

“Before I could do anything it jumped at me,” Sanginario’s post continued. “Worst nightmare of my life. Both me and the raccoon were screaming so loud. As I was screaming for help he fell off my arm but jumped right back on me to continue to attack.”

Been there myself. Stop laughing! I almost DIED!

“After somehow tumbling to the ground I got him in a headlock and wouldn’t let go,” she recalled. “As he was biting me I could hear bones breaking in its neck. He finally stopped screaming so I got off him. He got up and walked away. Can you believe it? I really thought I was going to die. It’s been a rough couple days but a weekend with my girlfriends is helping take the pain and trauma away.“

*Tune of “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”*

Grandma got assaulted by a raccoon

Hanging up the lights in her front yard

You can say there’s no such thing as COVID

But Grandma, she still got vaxxed… for rabies.

Sanginario said that when she was able to get an edge over the angry beast, she placed it in a tight headlock. Hearing its bones cracking, she presumed that the animal . which had fallen silent by that point . was dead and that the attack was over.

When she released the animal, she was shocked to see it simply walk away.

Popping sounds notwithstanding, a 70yo woman isn’t going to kill much with her bare hands.

Horrified and hurt, Sanginario drove to the hospital, where she was found to have broken ribs in addition to a variety of puncture wounds, cuts, and bruises. She also received a series of shots since the raccoon was apparently rabid.

Its going back for Round Two means it probably was rabid after all. That’s not normal animal behavior.

We can laugh because she recovered and is back with her friends, and you can use this as an excuse to put off putting up the lights.

Proverbs 22:13 – The slothful man saith, There is a raccoon without, I shall be slain in the streets!

The question is often raised, how could a deception/tyranny as large as the Plandemic happen? I find the answer in the Tower Of Babel, and evidence of one final revival coming.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

…Then they said, .Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth..

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, .If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other..

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel.because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. -Genesis 11:1-9

Emphasis mine. Humanity was united against God, so God handled the problem by introducing disunity at a very fundamental level.

That was thousands of years ago. In our lifetime, we have completed the Great Commission. Thanks to the Internet specifically and telecommunications generally, the Gospel has reached every last spot on Earth. The only groups that can still legitimately claim ignorance are small tribes of primitives living in museum-level artificial isolation.

At the same time, however, those telecommunications undid what God imposed at Babel: humanity now enjoys unified communications across the planet. Neither are languages the barrier that they used to be. The American Empire spread English the way Alexander the Great spread Greek, by wars of conquest… WW1&2 and the Cold War in our case, finishing what the British Empire before us had started.

How was humanity able to unite over the lie of the Plandemic? Because the protections of Babel are gone. Clever of God to link the Great Commission with the devil uniting the world… although in hindsight, it’s hard to imagine having the one without the other. Both require the same infrastructure.

Where does this leave us?

Humans being naturally inclined to evil, our governments will be naturally inclined to evil… them being made of humans. With the universality of the existing government, there isn’t going to be a reboot anywhere, no safe harbor provided by physical or social isolation from the corruption.

(Yes, the major players hate each other. It doesn’t change anything. Like pigs fighting at a trough, their disagreements are exclusively over who gets how much of the gibs.)

But all is not well in Commieland. There are mass protests everywhere. People who took the jabs and then got jobbed on the promised return of stolen freedoms, have sworn off the boosters. Others have still not forgiven Cuomo for killing Grandma. And more medicos every day are choosing to disassociate from the clot shot shitshow. It is hard to ignore the devil when he’s turning your home into an open-air prison.

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. .Tell us,. they said, .when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?.

Jesus answered: .Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, .I am the Messiah,. and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

.Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. -Matthew 24:3-14

There’s a case to be made that this passage applies to the entirety of time post-Jesus. However, He was asked specifically about the ending, not about what ‘business as usual’ would be like. As if half of the Old Testament could not be described by “wars and rumors of wars”!

Taking it as a description of our near future, then, I see a revival happening. There are few false Christs running around today. There ARE many ANTI-Christs, yes, but people falsely claiming to be Christ? That’s the sort of thing that Globohomo would do to in response to an upswing in Christian fervor… get in front of it, plant their own ‘leaders’ to maintain control of the new movement and so on. Heck, they ran that play just the other day with the Patriot Front protest in D.C.

(TL;DR on that protest: The Bidenreich gave a self-described group of fascist white supremacists permission to march in white hoods on the Capitol steps. No arrests were made and it was totally, ABSOLUTELY NOT a staged Two Minutes Hate.)

So, there will be one last revival, which will take place about the time of World War Fatigue. Also, at roughly the time that California has its “Big One” earthquake and its coastal regions slide into the Pacific Ocean. (Do not cry for me. I would have pushed that button myself while singing a jaunty tune.)

The next step, a great massacre of believers across the globe, is clearly repeated in End Times prophecy going all the way to the Fifth Seal of Revelation. It is not our fate to be quietly shut out of society to live wild in the boonies and Faucivilles. We will be hunted down and killed.

That’s good for me; I do not handle confinement well. But it also indicates that Globohomo will not be able to tame the increase in zeal for Christ with their false Messiahs. Their pretty lies will die and that will partly be a direct consequence of them lying to us so much about the Plandemic. Behold the REAL vaccination you’re giving us, Wormtongues!

Stupid age restrictions… here’s an archive of that video collage of young sports players dropping dead of NOBODY KNOWS WHAT BECAUSE THE VAXX IS KNOOOOWN TO BE SAAAAFE!!! h/t ‘J Wilderness’ youTube channel. And I’ll throw in Chapter Two because Let’s Go Brandon.

https://gunnerqcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/dead-athletes.zip

So, that’s how I see where we are and where we’re headed in the near future. I’m not a prophet but with a good knowledge of the day’s headlines, maybe it doesn’t take a prophet anymore.

At first I rolled my eyes at this study claiming that face masks improved the ability of jurors to detect lies. And then, the horrified realization of what they might have actually discovered: masks make everybody look like criminals!

Face masks make it EASIER for high court jurors to tell if witnesses are lying or telling the truth, study claims

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By Ian Randall for Mailonline, 6 December 2021

High court jurors are actually better able to tell whether those on the stand are lying or telling the truth if the latter are wearing a face mask, a study has claimed.

University of Portsmouth-led experts studied how COVID has affected the lie-detecting capacities of juries via measures like face masks and virtual courtrooms.

They found that facial expressions and other non-verbal behaviours that might be lost behind a mask or over a video screen are in fact unreliable indicators of deceit.

Given this, masking these signals can make it easier for jurors to assess truthfulness . and suggest that anti-COVID measures are not detrimental to court proceedings.

That’s the motive behind this study. The eggheads wanted to show “lockdowns don’t wreck the system”.

In their study, Professors Vrij and Hartwig reviewed hundreds of past studies on deception, focussing on those that assessed how well we can identify lies based on non-verbal cues such as demeanour, gestures and facial expressions.

These indicated people are only able to correctly detect deceit based on these indicators half of the time . an accuracy rate little better than random guesswork.

According to the team, habitual liars know how to cover up tell-tale behaviours that might give a more truthful individual away.

Having served on juries myself, this is just ridiculous. The jury doesn’t sit close enough to check for microexpressions and subtle gestures. Even assuming that jurors have appropriate training, they aren’t given opportunity. Forget about tools.

‘We draw attention to fundamentally problematic aspects of lie detection . in particular, the fact that non-verbal behaviour is not helpful,’ explained Professor Vrij.

Thank you, Captain Obvious. The world would be a better place if everybody’s eyelid twitched when they lied. Or, if every liar was immediately struck by lightning. The latter situation is referred to by some as ‘heaven’.

The team also explored studies that looked at whether it was easier or not to detect a liar in person than it was via a recording or video call . finding that lies were spotted just as well in both face-to-face and virtual courtrooms.

Meaning that jurors are clueless either way. I went to the linked study, which wasn’t available except for the abstract:

Deception and Lie Detection in the Courtroom: The Effect of Defendants Wearing Medical Face Masks

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, defendants and witnesses (as well as the prosecution and defense counsel) may wear medical face masks to prevent the spread of the virus. Alternatively, courtrooms proceedings may take place virtually. In this article, we discuss how these deviations from normal procedures may affect jurors. lie detection ability and decision-making. Although research addressing this specific question does not exist…

Oh. Dangit, another fake headline supporting a fake study in order to justify a very real lockdown.

But then the suspicion hit me, that mask wearing might truly be influencing jurors! Which means that this no-research, certified-!Science! study is a dangerous lie. I already know that, for example, defense attorneys sometimes put fake glasses on Dindu defendants in order to make them look more nerdy and less thuggy.

…we are able to formulate an informed view based on the extensive deception literature. Since nonverbal signs of deception in the face and body are virtually absent, we conclude that medical face mask-wearing or virtual courtroom proceedings will not hamper jurors. lie detection abilities. If jurors can hear the speech well, they may become better at detecting deception if they pay more attention to speech content, which may occur as a result of mask-wearing in the courtroom.

Sigh, yes, clear speaking enables jurors to better understand what they’re being told.

Screw these professional experts talking out of their asses! I’m gonna do the research that Tenured Faculty don’t want to!

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26 June 2020

To combat unconscious biases in promotions, soldiers will no longer be required to include pictures of themselves or indicate their race or gender in promotion packets starting in August, Army officials said.

Prior to the change, both officers and enlisted soldiers had to submit a Department of Army photo of themselves and check a box on promotion packets to indicate their racial origin and gender.

These changes come as the Defense Department as a whole is looking at how to end racial disparities in promotions and the military’s justice system.

Promotion boards are very much like a jury trial. Now those nasty white supremacists won’t be able to keep the little black man down! Checkmate, Adolf!

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3 August 2021

Removing photos from promotion and selection boards has had adverse effects on diversity, according to Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr., the chief of naval personnel.

.I think we should consider reinstating photos in selection boards,. Nowell said Tuesday at The Navy League’s 2021 Sea-Air-Space Exposition. .We look at, for instance, the one-star board over the last five years, and we can show you where, as you look at diversity, it went down with photos removed..

The comments come a little more than a year after the Department of Defense moved to eliminate photos from promotion and selection boards.

.It.s a meritocracy. We’re only going to pick the best of the best, but we’re very clear with our language . that we want them to consider diversity across all areas. Right?. Nowell said. “And therefore . I think having a clear picture on this just makes it easier. So, actually, our data show that it would support adding photos back in..

It worked. When jurors can’t see the person, they really do base their decisions only on the available information!

Prohibited Employment Policies/Practices

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(As of December 2021)

Although state and federal equal opportunity laws do not clearly forbid employers from making pre-employment inquiries that relate to, or disproportionately screen out members based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, or age, such inquiries may be used as evidence of an employer’s intent to discriminate unless the questions asked can be justified by some business purpose…

Similarly, employers should not ask for a photograph of an applicant. If needed for identification purposes, a photograph may be obtained after an offer of employment is made and accepted.

Even the government recognizes that the ability to see a person’s face can influence the treatment that person receives. We should have been putting bags over the heads of defendants a long time ago because of equality, or equity, or Equifax… you know, the thing.

Or would that make them all look guilty? We should put all defendants in Fonzie masks.

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By Hannah Jean Frank, 22 March 2019

This dissertation examines the effect of various aspects of defendant appearance on criminal case outcomes. Chapter One uses an experimental vignette study to investigate the effect of defendant race on conviction rates and assigned sentence length in the previously unexplored context of trials for nonviolent property crimes. The results indicate that white defendants are convicted more often and receive higher sentences than black defendants, in part due to race-based jury nullification.

THEY BURIED THIS SMOKING GUN!

However, the results also indicate that racial stereotypes disadvantaging black defendants affect both verdict and sentencing decisions. Chapter Two uses the same experimental vignette study as Chapter One to examine the effects of defendant dress and shackling. The results indicate that, at least in the context of trials for nonviolent property crimes, defendants in prison garb are convicted more often than defendants in civilian clothing by certain subgroups of mock jurors, providing empirical support for the Supreme Court’s holding in Estelle v. Williams, 425 U.S. 501 (1976). Additionally, defendants in prison garb are sentenced to significantly longer prison terms than defendants in casual civilian attire. Finally, Chapter Three provides the first empirical evidence on the effect of indiscriminate juvenile shackling on case outcomes. Recently, there has been a flurry of state action banning indiscriminate juvenile shackling by restricting the circumstances under which juveniles can be shackled in court. Using juvenile case data from North Carolina (where a ban on indiscriminate juvenile shackling was passed in 2007) and Tennessee (where no ban was passed until 2016) spanning 2004 to 2012, double-difference and triple-difference analyses are conducted in order to shed light on the effect of such bans.

So, face diapers would be increasing the conviction rate thanks to the Hannibal Lecter Mask Effect. If people were going to jail at all these days, I mean. These 2021 paid, tenured professors couldn’t be bothered to do enough homework to find a Vanderbilt study on their assigned topic two years ago that an Internet dudebro located in five minutes.

Speaking of ‘these’ professors, let’s look at whether face diapers really do affect the ability to detect lies.

WHAT ARE THE NINE WAYS TO SPOT A LIAR?

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Notice I’m re-linking to the original article. For shame!

The big pause: Lying is quite a complex process for the body and brain to deal with. First your brain produces the truth which it then has to suppress before inventing the lie and the performance of that lie.

This often leads to a longer pause than normal before answering, plus a verbal stalling technique like “Why do you ask that?. rather than a direct and open response.

Encounters with law enforcement being naturally stressful, this is not trustworthy.

The eye dart: Humans have more eye expressions than any other animal and our eyes can give away if we’re trying to hide something.

When we look up to our left to think we’re often accessing recalled memory, but when our eyes roll up to our right we can be thinking more creatively. Also, the guilt of a lie often makes people use an eye contact cut-off gesture, such as looking down or away.

Again, avoidant eye contact can easily be just stress.

The lost breath: Bending the truth causes an instant stress response in most people, meaning the fight or flight mechanisms are activated.

The mouth dries, the body sweats more, the pulse rate quickens and the rhythm of the breathing changes to shorter, shallower breaths that can often be both seen and heard.

Invisible thanks to masking. One point!

Overcompensating: A liar will often over-perform, both speaking and gesticulating too much in a bid to be more convincing. These over the top body language rituals can involve too much eye contact (often without blinking!) and over-emphatic gesticulation.

Two points! Body language doesn’t communicate well via Zoom.

The poker face: Although some people prefer to employ the poker face, many assume less is more and almost shut down in terms of movement and eye contact when they’re being economical with the truth.

Three points!

The face hide: When someone tells a lie they often suffer a strong desire to hide their face from their audience. This can lead to a partial cut-off gesture like the well-know nose touch or mouth-cover.

FOUR!

Self-comfort touches: The stress and discomfort of lying often produces gestures that are aimed at comforting the liar, such as rocking, hair-stroking or twiddling or playing with wedding rings. We all tend to use self-comfort gestures but this will increase dramatically when someone is fibbing.

FIVE!

Micro-gestures: These are very small gestures or facial expressions that can flash across the face so quickly they are difficult to see. Experts will often use filmed footage that is then slowed down to pick up on the true body language response emerging in the middle of the performed lie.

The best time to spot these in real life is to look for the facial expression that occurs after the liar has finished speaking. The mouth might skew or the eyes roll in an instant give-away.

SIX! What is going on here?

Heckling hands: The hardest body parts to act with are the hands or feet and liars often struggle to keep them on-message while they lie.

To conclude, this article is titled “Face masks help jurors detect lies”, it quotes a study that claims jurors can’t tell either way and closes by offering nine tips for detecting lies… seven of which are made more difficult by face masks and teleconferencing. This Daily Mail article actually debunks itself. And when actual research was performed for ten minutes, the study indicated that wearing face masks would increase incarceration rates because Hannibal Lecter.

Which means, contra the professionals quoted above, jury trials ARE being biased by Plandemic lockdown rules.

Thanks for playing, University of Portsmouth. !Science!

P.S. The tenth way to spot a liar is “they won re-election”.

A trend I’ve seen among many no-longer Christians is that they have a bad experience with a church or specific pastor, impute that misconduct to God Himself and thus leave the faith. While I fully empathize with people encountering bad apples in them church boxes, it’s an obvious category error to accuse God of what Man has done.

Buzzfeed has helpfully collected 26 examples of people who quit Christianity as part of their latest anti-Christ media blitz. Most of the examples are people who’d already abandoned Christ spiritually before the incident they describe but there are some interesting cases.

Former Christians Are Sharing The Turning Points That Made Them Leave The Faith, And They Did Not Hold Back

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Buzzfeed staff c/o yahoo.com, 4 December 2021

We recently asked the former Christians of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us what was their turning point to leave the religion. Here are some of their insightful stories:

1.”The breaking point for me was when the pastor of the church I was attending went on a rant about abortion and ended it with ‘The holocaust that is currently happening in the United States makes it look like Hitler was playing in the sandbox!’”

“After picking my jaw up off the floor, I got up and left and never looked back.”

.samk35

We start with an easy one. “God cannot be real if He doesn’t want babies being killed for Mommy’s convenience.”

2.”I grew up in an EXTREMELY religious Roman Catholic household and right after my first suicide attempt, I had woken up in the hospital after being unconscious. My parents were sitting in the room and instead of comforting me or saying absolutely anything my father just said, ‘You do know suicide is a sin? If you had been successful, you would’ve been in hell.’”

“I was 15. That was the moment that I realized I will never believe in God or any organized religion again.”

.cracklinrosie

This one is more respectable, a girl quitting Christ because of what she was told about Christ. But there’s still that “I will never believe in God or any organized religion again” line. “I reject Ganesha because Christ is a meanie” is a multilevel cognitive failure.

Sometimes I wonder about the extent to which other people have only an emotional understanding of reality.

3.”A priest told me that the reason I developed an autoimmune condition was because I wasn’t living a life free from sin and it was my punishment. He said one of those sins was wearing a short skirt (not in church) because I was tempting men to have impure thoughts. Bye-bye church.”
.kayblu02

If the autoimmune condition was HIV then the priest was totally right, and this is the Buzzfeed community. Just sayin’.

4.”I attended church as a teenager and among the many, many issues I had with them, there were two final straws for me which made me leave the Christian belief system. First was when the youth leaders locked me in a room and yelled at me for losing my virginity.”

Harsh but fair. Punishment for irresponsible behavior is appropriate. If it saves just one life then it’s worth doing!

“The second was when they organized a church get-together which involved a two-hour ‘motivational talk’ from a ‘reformed homosexual’ who basically told everyone that being gay is a death sentence. That killed it for me because there could have been kids there looking for guidance and acceptance being in that situation and you’ve just told them they should die.”

.Anonymous

Every time a Sodomite ragequits the church, an angel gets its wings.

5.”When I got pregnant at 16, most of my church turned their backs on me. My decision to leave the faith was further confirmed when I realized that they knew about the child abuse my siblings and I were subjected to yet did nothing.”

Accusing a church of covering up child abuse has become the “disabled Vietnam vet” of the religious world. This account is doubly suspicious because she’s accusing the church of noticing her sexual misconduct but not anybody else’s sexual misconduct.

“I.ve now been married for over 20 years to my husband (the father of my child), with two adult children who are amazing. I’ve exposed them to multiple religions and allowed them to make their own decisions, with neither opting to join any organized religion. Both are amazing, kind, and caring and I have no regrets.”

.Anonymous

Sounds like she managed to baby-trap the high school quarterback. If there’s no police report then there’s no sex crime, Barbie.

6.”My spouse and I were having marital problems. I was told to go back into the house without dealing with our problems, or the pastor would excommunicate me.”

.Anonymous

Not much to work with here. If pastor was sending a wife back to her husband on threat of excommunication then probably good, if pastor was speaking to the husband then very bad.

Either way, why blame God? Was this person expecting the church to stabilize their marriage? This is a possible source of “I quit God because bad church” thinking, if people come to Christ with the expectation of gaining a material, worldly benefit.

But if so then they were never Christian. Christ is not in the business of hiring mercenaries. If the Crucifixion was insufficient to buy our love (and that was not at all the reason Christ did it) then God could hardly be expected to go even further.

7.”The turning point for me was when I realized that my sexual assault could have been prevented if I had better understood sex and consent.”

Being taught abstinence prevented me from coming forward because I was told early on that if I had sex before marriage I was dirty and it was a sin.”
.Anonymous

This one quit Christ because of what Christ taught. All is well.

8.”A priest told me I should only have friends who shared my faith after I told him my best friend was Jewish. I had been moving away from religion for a while, but that was the last straw.”
.juliel4e89ecc7d

Normally I’d suspect an insecure Papist trying to bully the young into cultural loyalty, if not Christian loyalty, but I have a suspicion that Julie intentionally secured a Jewish BFF in order to monkeybranch away from Christianity… in which case that priest made the right call.

9.”I was born with a physical disability and was bullied continuously until high school. My parents are devout Christians and they never did anything to help me. Even when I would come home every day crying, they said that it was all part of ‘God.s plan.’”

“The bullying was even worse at church, and again, no one, not even the Bible study teachers, stepped in to stop it. When I felt suicidal in sixth grade, my parents screamed as if I were the devil and threatened to disown me. I quickly shut up after that but suffered alone in silence.”

.eternalrealms

This is a complete lie. In our modern day of victimhood, truly crippled children do not get continuously bullied by everybody for years on end. I’ll walk it back if this guy survived a NXIVM-level cult but if that was the case then why blame Christ?

10.”When I was 12, my parents sent me to a Christian summer camp for a week. The counselors always told us to talk to them if we had any questions. One night after the campfire, I told one of them that I understood sex outside of marriage was bad, but what about all the other stuff? The counselor asked me what other stuff, and I (very foolishly) explained first, second, and third base.”

“She asked me how I knew that, and I told her it from the advice section of gurl.com (doesn.t exist anymore, but it was an excellent resource for pre-teen and teen girls). Then she proceeded to go back to our cabin and tell all the other campers and counselors that I was a pervert. I had been pretty involved in our church before that, but after that I was done.”

.sadielady3

Heh, it’s one of those “funny years later” stories. But again, why quit Christ because you went to a bad summer camp for a week? In this case, sounds like Sadie ran afoul of the local Cool Girls convention. Nothing a church change wouldn’t solve.

11.”Once COVID hit and my church actively denied science and talked about the ‘evil’ vaccines, I had to walk away completely.”

“How could leaders of a religion preach a message that was actively putting their congregation in danger and still claim to be Christians? It went against everything they claimed to believe so I realized that their beliefs weren’t real for them so why should they be real to me.”

.Anonymous

Anonymous was a Socialist, not a Christian. Quitting Christ because of political loyalties is a strong tell.

12.”While I was visiting my parents. rural Georgia megachurch one Easter, the pastor went off sermon for a full 20 minutes about the ‘abomination of homosexuality.’ I’m bisexual and so is my wife.”

.sweetbref

Another angel got his wings.

13.”My Christian uncle assaulted me on and off until I was 32. I had never allowed myself to believe it actually happened because he and his wife were the whole reason I was a believer. After I told my family, they believed me and were supportive…until I told others. I shared my experiences with other survivors to support them. My Christian family freaked out.”

“They all turned on me and said it should have been kept ‘in the family’ since I had forgiven him. I do not believe there is EVER a time a victim of abuse should be quiet about it. These people still have high standing in the church and have families and children in their home who have no idea what he is. I refuse to believe their way is right. Forgiveness does not mean there aren’t consequences.”

.thekimmer1234

This is exactly the sort of case I’m talking about. Why blame Christ for what a very obviously anti-Christian relative did? One easily sympathizes with that kind of traumatic experience… but the briefest perusal of Christian morality states that God will ruin and destroy that uncle in divinely-fueled, hateful rage for an eternity.

It is a terrible thing for Christians to forget/neglect the existence of Evil in this world. So many approach religion as moralistic therapeutic deism that when a time comes to lock and load, they’re paralyzed by uncertainly about how to proceed.

14.“What made me think something wasn’t right was when the church ostracized me for getting pregnant outside of wedlock, and slut shamed me. The last straw was when my religious father told me it was my fault I was abused, and punishment for my sin. I told him and evangelical Christianity to fuck all the way completely off, and never looked back.”

One vote for Daddy Knows Best.

“I grew up fundamentalist Christian. It felt like an abusive relationship. I would sin, I would be reminded what a terrible person I was, and if I begged and pleaded, God would *maybe* think about taking me back. I was also taught nothing but obedience to my parents, but especially my father. My father was God’s representative on earth, and when I got married, his authority would transfer to my husband. Then I was expected to submit unto my husband.”

.elizabethannez

Okay. “Fuck you, Daddy” is an excellent reason to reject the Father Of All. Go burn in Hell, witch, and know that ye be no loss to Mankind.

15.”My college roommate and I attended the same church as kids. I always thought it was a warm and welcoming place. However, she told me when her dad cheated on her mom, abused her, and left her to raise three kids on her own. The church made her mom feel guilty about it like it was her fault.”

Oh noes! Wifey did everything right but her husband treated her like dirt then traded her in!

Wait, why do I smell brimstone?

“They offered no support and encouraged her to take him back. It opened my eyes to the abuse and neglect of women in the faith as well as the hypocrisy.”

.seekyou

Skanky Mommy’s lies were not believed by her local church. Why can’t I have a good church like that?

16.”I, a white female, went to a high school dance with a Black boy. When I told my mom who was taking me to the dance, she said it was unacceptable for me to go with someone of a different race because the bible says, ‘Birds should only be with other birds and bees should only be with other bees.’”
“She used Christianity to justify her position against interracial relationships and compared people of different races like they’re different species. That was the turning point for me.”

.Anonymous

Another Socialist ragequitting Christianity. Ironically, she quit Christ for what Christ didn’t teach before she knew enough to quit Christ for what Christ DID teach. Specifically, what Christ and Paul said about the Jews.

Maybe she couldn’t find a black Jewish boy to invite to the dance. He was probably booked by all the other feminists.

17.”My parents were getting divorced, I went to see my youth leader to ask why God wasn’t answering my prayers to just help my mom stop crying everyday. She said, ‘Well, sometimes God answers big prayers and sometimes he answers little prayers. Just yesterday I asked him to give me a front parking spot at the grocery store and I got one!’”

“It was my *come to Jesus* moment of why Catholicism is rooted in selfishness. God is there in the good times but he leaves you to your own devices in the bad? Nah.”

.Anonymous

Again, people having an emotional understanding of Christianity as opposed to a rational understanding. Why? Divorce is not Christian.

18.”My journey to leaving was a long time coming, but the big event I can point to was the church’s response to the George Floyd protests. Their statement was full of white denial and tone policing and it didn’t sit right with me. That’s when I really started asking questions and learned about Mormonism’s true origins and all of their lies, brainwashing, and atrocities.”

“From there I started seeing those same problems with Christianity in general and once you see those things you can’t unsee them. At this point I don’t have any sort of solid belief system, but I don’t think I’ll ever go back to any sort of organized religion, but especially not Christianity.”

.Anonymous

You DO have a solid belief system, kid. It’s called cultural Marxism and man, if you thought Mormonism is a lie (it is) then you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Maybe some people are simply blind to the truth of Christianity. God said that such people existed but I hesitate to write off anybody as unreachable. Until they cross a thick black line, anyway. You Sodomize your nephew, you don’t get forgiven.

19.”For me, it was the hypocrisy of the Christian faith. I got married outside the church and was told that it wouldn’t be recognized by God because it needed to be in the church, even though God is omnipresent? It made no sense.”
.Anonymous

Another bald-faced lie. “There is no God because He prefers a different bureaucracy for the paperwork”?

20.”I lost my brother to cancer when he was 15 (I was 6). The response given to me was that ‘He must have been so good that God needed him in heaven.’ I then lost my father to cancer when I was 13 and on the day before his funeral, two of my teachers tried to comfort me by saying that ‘He wanted to go and be with (my brother) in heaven.’”

“What in the world made them think that was an okay thing to say to a child who had just lost her father?”

They were trying to comfort you.

“After that I called bullshit. Even if there was a God, I wanted nothing to do with them if they could do something as horrible as that to a family.”

.Anonymous

“God was mean so I now believe only in survival of the fittest.”

21.”For me, it was how they treated my mother when my parents divorced. They placed all the blame on her. Mom wasn’t perfect, but my dad played a big part in it as well. It takes two to tango.”

.Anonymous

Broken families are one legit way for me to square the circle of “There’s no God because He didn’t meet my expectations.” Families are supposed to be the premier way of reflecting Christ upon Humanity. Somehow, the Church has completely abandoned that notion… probably because they wanted Snowflake to feel good about her abortion.

But we keep coming back to the same place, that an emotional understanding of reality is capricious and ultimately, insane.

22.”I was 13, active in a Southern Baptist church, best friends with the preacher’s kids, never missed a youth group meeting, studied to teach Bible study when I was able, helped with VBS, the whole 9 yards. We had a ‘fall festival’ (because we can’t celebrate Halloween) with a hayride and I FELL OFF AND WAS RUN OVER. There was a whole fight with the insurance company to get bills covered and church members fighting against me while I had to reconstruct my cheek and learn to walk again.”

“When I returned to church months later, there was a ‘business meeting’ instead of service that everyone had to attend. Why would children need to be there? Because they wanted to discuss ‘removing insurance liabilities’ AKA me. At 13, I jumped up and said ‘I can fix that for ya’ and walked out of the building. I tried a couple of other churches later in my teens, but that was definitely the beginning of my distaste of organized religion.”

.belle82

She literally fell off the hay wagon? Umm… no comment.

23.”I was leaning away from Christianity since I was 11 but my final turning point happened in my early 20s. Mom took me to a play being held at a church and it was mostly about what you.d expect: Various sins acted out and the sinners going to hell while the righteous going to meet Jesus. One segment though really got to me.”

“A mom was driving her teenage daughter to church and the daughter asked her mom to go to church with her to which the mom replied that she couldn’t because she had to work that day. They get hit by a car driven by some drunk boys and the boys and the mom die. The boys get dragged to the fires of hell, but then after a minute so did the mom because she chose to go to work instead of church. The daughter was crying when that happened but as soon as Jesus showed up everything was sunshine and rainbows. There was no way I could follow any religion that faults a mother for providing for her child.”

.nightmareampersand

Good news, that’s not what Christ teaches… except you’re already gone.

24.”A church elder told me that my disability would disappear if I prayed harder.”
.Anonymous

Disappointment with God is a reasonable complaint. Too many Christians, and not all are the charismatic type, promise worldly benefits that inevitably don’t come on schedule.

25.”My pastor told me I should get my act together if I wanted to amount to anything. At the time I was working around 60 hours a week and studying part time.”

“I was literally clawing my way out of poverty but because mommy and daddy weren’t loaded and I didn’t fit into the image the church wanted to portray. I never went back.”

.Anonymous

The boldfaced is very obviously not a God problem. it’s a clergy problem.

26. And “I was conned into attending a retreat in college and one of the leaders started his little sermon about how God made everything happen for a reason, and therefore God elected Trump so if we didn’t obey Trump, we weren’t obeying God. I got up and walked out.”
.Anonymous

Another Socialist-never-a-Christian.

Disappointment with God seems to come the closest to describing why people quit God when life issues come along. They were promised something that was not true, or they personally believed something that was not true, and upon being disappointed, didn’t stick around to look past the pain.

I don’t know what to say. That is, I am experienced in being disappointed by God and life, and I can easily give a correct theological understanding of pain and sorrow, but Disappointment is not the sort of thing that can be understood via IQ.

There have been times when I couldn’t relate to God the Platonic Form of Truth, Justice And Other Neat Stuff, too. Those times, I looked to Christ because He also lived a normal life. He cried with relatives died, he took vacations when the workload got to Him, endured toothaches and teenage awkwardness and working a job.

Why be a downer over the holidays? Let’s hear some happy headlines about men acting like men and idiots acting like idiots!

L.A. firefighter accused of vulgar act in protest over vaccine mandate

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By Dakota Smith, 24 November 2021

The Los Angeles Fire Department is investigating an incident in which a firefighter “responded inappropriately” after being handed a letter to comply with the city’s vaccine mandate, a department spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The LAFD member responded to receiving the noncompliance letter by dropping his pants and wiping his buttocks with the letter, leaving fecal matter on the document, before dropping it to the ground, according to the Stentorians of Los Angeles City, a group representing African American firefighters.

Definition of ‘stentorian: “extremely loud”. A BLM affiliate should be the last organization to complain about the existence of a shit stain.

The situation underscores the deep resistance among some within the Fire Department over the city’s mandate that employees be vaccinated.

No shit, Sherlock! Well, maybe there was a little….

The city has sent vaccination compliance notices to workers as part of the city’s new vaccination mandate. Workers who have yet to get vaccinated or seek exemptions are supposed to sign notices that instruct them to provide proof of vaccination by Dec. 18.

Workers who refuse to sign those notices will be taken off duty and their pay halted as they await a notice of “proposed separation,. according to a memo that was sent to city departments by Garcetti.

The vaccination mandate has prompted angry outbursts for months from some in the Fire Department.

Now calm down, Mister Based Firefighter Hero, and tell us how you REALLY feel.

A newly formed group called Firefighters 4 Freedom is suing the city over the vaccine rules, while a firefighter’s YouTube video criticizing the mandate went viral in August.

At the same time, some employee groups want LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas removed amid accusations the department isn’t addressing harassment and bullying, particularly of female firefighters.

A recent survey found that an overwhelming number of firefighters lack trust in their leaders, while many in the department are frustrated with perceived inconsistencies in how top brass discipline sworn members.

I don’t have any time for the mass protests that are catching all the current attention… but I have lots of time for people who publicly use notices of vaxx compliance for toilet paper!

Defiant Eateries A Test Of County Powers

Dead Tree Edition of Los Angeles Times, 26 November 2021

Again and again, public health inspectors returned to the Italian restaurant at the Westlake Village shopping center.

They found Novo Cafe serving diners indoors and out, despite a Los Angeles County order forbidding it during the worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to county records. Over and over, they handed out citations with a $500 fine.

Westlake Village is posh enough that the Cafe can probably afford that fine. Especially if they’re the only choice in town for normal dine-in.

Hold that thought… they ain’t been paying nothin’!!!

As of early November, Novo Cafe had been fined $86,000 for scores of citations–and none of those fines had been paid, county officials said. It had gotten more than 90 citations by the middle of November, according to the public health department…

In February, the county revoked the restaurant’s public health permit. Noro Cafe stayed open. This summer, co-owner Massimo Forti told an MBC4 news crew who filmed unmasked workers in the restaurant that he saw adhering to the mask requirements as a “sign of submission”.

YES! WAY TO GO, MASSIMO!!!

Shira Shafir, an associate professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, said that “given the politicization” around COVID-19 rules, some businesses “will just choose to get the fine and remain open.” She added that public health agencies with limited staff and resources may weigh whether “the juice is worth the squeeze”.

This is how you do it! No wars or protests, JUST DO IT!

Another repeat violator was Cronies Sports Grill in Agoura Hills, which received more than 80 citations for violating COVID-19 orders between December and July, according to county records. In December, it hosted a protest against a county ban on outdoor dining.

“It’s not a political thing; it’s a right or wrong thing. It’s a common-sense thing,” restaurant owner Dave Foldes was quoted in the Acorn newspaper. “Let us keep our business open. Let us keep our livelihood.“

Alas, Dave, it IS a political thing and the loss of your livelihood is a priority of the Plandemic. But you’re doing the right thing, defying it! More than most people are doing.

[A] county lawsuit against [restaurant] Bread & Barley alleged that a public health inspector was threatened and cursed at by a representative, who followed the inspector out and blocked the person’s vehicle with his truck. At one point, after police officers had been called in, restaurant owner Carlos Roman told them he was desperate.

“You guys all got a paycheck, right?” Roman says to the officers and inspector in a video of the incident posted online. “She doesn’t,” Roman says, referring to his restaurant manager. “The cook doesn’t.”

And that’s why business owners should not fear the reaper. You’re going to lose if you comply; you’re going to make some money then lose if you don’t comply. Hmm.

County officials said the health inspector faced threatening phone calls and protests at his office, leading the Department of Public Health to hire security personnel, after Roman posted to Instagram a department citation with the inspector’s information.

Better get used to being treated like Nazis, you Health Nazis. You don’t get to destroy innocent peoples’ livelihoods for fun & profit and then get to sleep safe at night. Don’t blame me; I’m just a messenger. You fuck with them, at some point, they’ll start fucking with you.

As an aside, I’m spending Thanksgiving in Los Angeles myself. The City went full-on vaxx lockout but as it turns out, going to a restaurant in L.A. County-but-not-City is easily doable. All those in-city restaurants are losing massive profits by checking peoples’ papers.

Join the dissidents! You have nothing to lose but your chain stores!

Roman, in turn, said in an interview that he had received an outpouring of support after confronting the inspector.

Now for a Florida Man story!

.Girl tried to kill me.: Biker tells police after shooting librarian accused of pointing gun at him

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Hmm, yes, what HAVE those librarians been doing for the Plandemic? Getting pregnant and picking fights with biker gangs, apparently….

ORANGE CITY, Fla. . Police [in Orange City] say 36-year-old Sara Nicole Morales had the intent to hit a motorcyclist on Volusia Avenue after some kind of incident and then took off. The motorcyclist was not seriously hurt. He then followed her, along with several witnesses to the hit-and-run, and one of those witnesses called 911.

Sounds like he was riding with friends. Most passers-by wouldn’t head into trouble like that, although they were in the right since she…

.The lady just took off and left. What kind of vehicle was it? It’s a blue Kia,. the caller said.

…just committed hit & run.

Police say the motorcyclist and others were trying to get Morales to stop but that she refused. She turned onto east Wisconsin and drove a mile or more to her home with the hit-and-run victim and several others in pursuit.

Police say Morales ran inside and came back out with a gun. On the call, you can hear Morales briefly yelling at the motorcyclist and then gunshots.

According to police, multiple shots were allegedly fired at Morales by the hit and run motorcycle victim, after he claimed she pointed a gun at him. Several of the witnesses backed that up.

.Why did he shoot her?. the operator asked.

.Because she pulled a gun out on him,. the caller replied.

The motorcyclist, having a valid Florida concealed weapons permit, drew his concealed handgun and fired multiple rounds, striking Morales, a report says. Morales was transported to Halifax Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead.

Morales’ handgun was recovered on scene.

According to a police report, the man told authorities when they arrived: “That girl tried to kill me, she pointed a gun at me.”

Police say he remained on scene and has been cooperating with law enforcement. So far, he is not being charged. Detectives say they are still investigating, but they are treating this as a case of self defense. Neither Morales, nor the motorcyclist have any previous local criminal history.

Morales left behind an 11yo and a finance per other accounts. A single mother.

Sara Morales worked for Volusia County as a library assistant. The county closed the Deland and Pierson libraries to give staff at both, who she worked with, time to grieve.

Or celebrate, more likely. Evidence thus far says her personality was, perhaps, not as sunny as Florida’s climate.

Glendale officer uses Taser on man holding knife; man falls, stabbing himself in the neck

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By Amaris Encinas, 24 November 2021

I thought this sort of thing only happened in bad Chuck Norris movies.

A Glendale police officer and a man are injured after the man pulled out a large knife, held it to himself and the officer used a Taser on him, causing him to fall on the knife on Tuesday.

Officers responded to reports of a “suspicious” fire just after 6 p.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they spoke with a man who was engaging in “odd” behavior, according to police spokesperson Sgt. Randy Stewart on Wednesday.

The body camera footage released Wednesday shows the unidentified officer speaking to the man.

After officers began to speak to the man, they found out that he was associated with the burning home.

The officer can be heard telling the man he cannot go back into his home: “You can’t go there, it’s not safe.”

Sounds like a drug house, if there’s a guy wandering around it acting strangely then wanting to go inside while it’s burning down.

The officer then directed the man to grab a water bottle and move down the street away from the firefighters. The man instead decided to dump all of the water on the ground.

“Now maybe we can get out of their way so they can do their job,” the officer said.

The man put the empty water bottle into a mailbox as the officer continued to direct him.

“Three more hours of this until shift change,” thought the poor cop.

After returning to the officer’s side, the man pulled out a knife. As soon as the officer saw the knife, he tried to grab it from him.

“Not another police defunder off his psych meds,” thought the poor cop.

The officer can be heard saying, “Let me have the knife. Put the knife down.”

The man did not comply and walked away from the officer. The officer reported that the man had a knife and then told the man to “put the knife down now.” The man instead held the knife close to his chest and neck.

The officer then pointed his Taser at the man and told the man to put the knife down before using the Taser.

The man began falling to the ground, so the officer lunged to grab him, appearing to cut his own hand in the process. The man hit the ground. The officer attempted to roll the man over to grab the knife.

“The knife is in his neck,” the officer said.

Oops. Problem solved!

A firefighter approached to assist the officer and saw that the knife was in the man’s neck. The firefighter managed to roll the man over onto his back by dragging him.

The video cuts with the man in a fetal position, the knife still stuck in his neck.

The man was eventually treated for his injuries and transported to a local hospital despite not initially allowing paramedics to treat his injuries.

Oh, right, they had an ambulance on standby ten feet away because there was a house fire in progress. Thus did Dindu Muffin survive his own best efforts to win a Darwin Award.

Cheers and enjoy this holiday weekend! The world won’t end until Monday because that’s when the news media will have time to cover it… after all the traditional, heartwarming stories are told once again, of Florida Man bagging a big one and wrathful micro-tyrants getting disrespected.

May you find yourselves among friends and family this Thanksgiving weekend!

This is the other reason why California sometimes has electrical fires in rural locations.

Sometimes when I travel, I take an off-ramp in the middle of nowhere. These are typical results.

Addendum: It occurred to me, thinking about the holidays last night, that there are many voices claiming that our society has lost its way because life has become too comfortable. If this was true then Thanksgiving should properly be called Resentment, a time to curse family, food and wealth from holding us back from our true potential. Put that way, the fault is obvious: the reward for merit is surely not anti-merit. It is Islam that argues the reward for doing good should be evil, a teaching that dates back to Mohammed declaring himself free of all the morality he taught because he’d been such a good boy.

We SHOULD have happy families. We SHOULD have wealth and abundant food. These are not crimes against achievement! Poverty is not a virtue and wealth is not a crime. It is worse to beat people into the mud, arguing that they’ll be virtuous if they’re too busy growing food to do evil, than to permit freedom and see what they do with it.

Thanksgiving is a prequel of the end of our life’s journey, when we take seat with our Savior and enjoy what the hardships of life have brought us. We are not celebrating the hardships! We are celebrating that the hardships are over. Today temporarily, in heaven forever.

Which brings up the one point on which the wags are right: if there is a fault to comfortable living, it is forgetfulness of death. Winter comes for all and woe betide the man unprepared! Which is why this Thanksgiving is a hard one for many of us. We see death coming swiftly while our rulers think themselves gods and behave like devils. How death can take anybody by surprise is a mystery… I would ask Potato Joe if he wasn’t quietly shitting himself in between repeating what the microchip in his ear says. But death comes for all, thus we need a Savior, thus we celebrate Thanksgiving as a form of the True Thanksgiving when we are finally Saved.

It’s hard to see Farcebook rebranding itself as MetaZuck as anything other than a way to capitalize on imminent Forever Lockdowns being pioneered in (where else) Austria, Germany, Sudentenland and… didn’t we already fight that war twice? I love my ancestors but please, stop with the death camps already.

This coming article suggests that “Meta” was launched somewhat prematurely, since they’re only beginning to test whether virtual dating in their aptly named “Singletown” is going to catch on.

Prediction: it’ll be like OnlyFans.

*checks*

Nope. Tinder.

Tinder and Bumble Enter the Metaverse . How Crypto and NFTs Could Become Essential to Virtual Dating Apps

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By Ya.l Bizouati-Kennedy, 19 November 2021

With a name like that, you just know that a Kennedy stuck his dick in crazy.

Dating apps Tinder and Bumble are entering into a relationship with the metaverse ecosystem, changing the way people will interact in drastic ways and re-inventing their platforms. From the use of avatars and digital coins to first dates in virtual piano bars, the apps are reshaping the dating landscape.

I can’t wait until Carbon-Neutral dogma gets unleased on the ‘ecosystem’ of Zuckerberg’s server farms.

For the two public companies, these plans will also provide a new revenue stream, and experts are saying that competitors should consider entering the metaverse fray, too, at the risk of being dumped.

Hold that thought…

Tinder said it rolled out Explore, “an interface which allows users to connect with others through new experiences beyond the Swipe that used to be Tinder,. Shar Dubey, CEO of Tinder’s parent company Match Group, said on an investor call earlier this month.

Match Group is a conglomerate of match.com, OKStupid, Tinder, Pregnant Or Fat and ten other dating sites catering to ethnics, freaks and/or France. They really don’t have any competition to speak of and any such competition is not likely to enjoy a warm welcome in the marriage bed between Dating Megacorp and Social Media Megacorp.

The company is also rolling out its own coins . Tinder Coins . which are currently being tested in several markets including a few markets in Europe.

Well, sure. Any company led by a Steinberg is going to be a grift first and a gutted acquisition second.

.Coins can also be used to incentivize certain behaviors to help members make more meaningful connections on Tinder, such as verifying their profile or adding video to their bio. And, perhaps most importantly, Coins will be essential for the virtual goods and trading ecosystem planned for 2022 and beyond,. according to a letter to shareholders.

I see you, Social Credit.

Finally, the company is also beta testing a new concept on some college campuses in Seoul, called Singletown . a platform where your digital self in the form of real-time audio-powered avatar can serendipitously meet others in virtual spaces, like a bar. Or, you can sit down with someone in a park bench to have one-on-one or group conversation, Dubey said on the call.

Singletown. So appropriate. Can anything be faker and gayer then your fantasy self meeting her fantasy self in a fantasy world for love at first… fantasy? There is no content in that. Boy never meets girl and forget about boink, he’s not even getting facetime.

I notice they’re testing the concept in one of the most, um, not-fleshy, repressed dating markets in existence: South Korean college campuses. I’m just saying, the MetaZuck better have a Starcraft 2-themed dating lounge for those hopeless romantics.

.There is, for instance, a piano bar where people’s digital selves are gathering around, but they are actually playing their pianos at home and jamming with others,. Dubey said. .You can overhear our conversations, join conversations. You can tap into the digital avatars to see more of that profile and you have basically a richer set of signals to help connect with someone. It is metaverse experiences coming to life in a way that is transformative to how people meet and get to know each other on a dating or social discovery platform and is much more akin to how people interact in the real world..

Or, you can spend $100 on craigslist to buy a keyboard, watch a few youTube videos and actually play your piano at your home and jamming with your actual guests.

As for Bumble, the move came shortly after Tinder.s, although the plans are more vague. Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble founder and CEO, said in an investor call on Nov. 10 that Web 3.0 is all about community and treats everyone in the community as participants who together make the community what it is.

Excepting from that community, in increasing order of sex appeal, vaxx denialists, Trump supporters and misogynists.

.Longer term, it becomes a way for our members to own their experience on Bumble. This could happen through the communities they build, the virtual goods and experiences they acquire or through new ways of owning their identity as they navigate the metaverse. The company will start exploring applications with its friendship app, Bumble BFF.

Dude, like I can’t even, whatever, man, this level of stupid makes me talk Valley Girl. Gak me with a grody spoon if it catches on!

President Tariq Shaukat said on the call that the company is “taking a Web 3.0 lens..

.We.ve got a couple of tests that we’re very excited about that we will be rolling out in the upcoming months around this, but we think that’s the first toehold there,. Shaukat said. .This is something that is going to evolve. We want to make sure we’re setting the technical and engineering foundation for whatever emerges in the metaverse and in the Web 3.0 world..

It’s always a bad sign when they offer you the solution first and the problem second. “Look, we have a shiny new artificial reality to replace our stolen cis-reality with! I wonder what we can do with it?” This is a longstanding trait of Marxism.

“Viva la Revolucion!”

“Actually, we like our lives the way they are.”

“Oh, well, let me fix that.” *Commies empty the prisons, murder the farmers and inflame racial strife*

“Save us! Viva la Revolucion!”

Alex DiNunzio, CEO and co-founder of Jambb, an NFT [Non-Fungible Token, a form of digital currency] marketplace for comedy and comedians, told GOBankingRates that there is no doubt that the metaverse offers ever-expanding possibilities. Dating apps, which are largely used by younger demographics, have a built-in, tech-savvy audience that is open to exploring new forms of interaction, he said.

.The capabilities of AR/VR in terms of connecting people in real-time, virtually face-to-face, suit the dating app space well, particularly following a global pandemic,. DiNunzio explained. He added that one interesting aspect will be to see how NFTs play out here.

.With the increasing ease of minting NFTs, they could be utilized to show expressions of interest and affection. Consider, for example, an NFT love letter or a “like” token that users on platforms like Tinder could earn from doing everything from verifying their profiles and adding videos to being responsive and not ghosting dates,. he said. .The metaverse is complementary to NFTs, and I believe both these movements will grow and evolve together. Blockchain-based social dating offers key elements missing from current dating applications, like trust, transparency, data security and fraud protection against nefarious actors, or .catfishes.’.

“I love you” signed, Josef Stalin.

DiNunzio added that, ultimately, dating apps will need to adapt or they will quickly become irrelevant.

Adapt to what? The problem that comedians are having with meatspace is not how they’re paid, it’s getting death threats from Social Justice morons who left college with no degree in Sense Of Humor. It’s obvious that MetaZuck is supposed to be our New Normal after we’re incarcerated in as literal a Matrix as Globohomo can manage, but they’re implementing it in a way that guarantees it’ll be the NextDoor app in Hell-3D.

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.The future may very well redefine the definition of a connection beyond in-person meetings, turning more focus on virtual experiences, like two avatars coming together before ever meeting in person. Decentralized dating apps are only one piece of the metaverse puzzle, which is continuing to grow and elevate how people interact in digital spaces and places,. he said.

Communists try this EVERY TIME! They always assume that human nature is “infinitely malleable”, to quote the Communist Manifesto, and then they twist human nature into some unnatural shape, and then society falls apart into gulags and mass alcoholism. EVERY SINGLE TIME. But the Communist keeps trying this because they hate God and by extension, they hate human nature which is hardwired to teach the truth about Christ & Humanity to even the dullest of wits.

Already, I see sharp rises in drug overdoses in our Brave New Normal of Chinky Pox. Not a coincidence.

What do these people think is the purpose of dating? It’s pressing flesh! Anything from cuddling over a movie all the way to married with kids, the goal of dating is unavoidably located in the Real World. But they’re trying to replace it with a dopamine hit of “my Pokemon avatar got lucky with a Japanese schoolgirl avatar in the Retro Lounge. And a Tinder Coin popped out!”

No thanks. I’ll stay in meatspace and watch this train wreck from a safe distance.

God Develops Ultra-Realistic Metaverse Where People Can Talk, Learn, And Work With Other People, Calling It ‘Universe’

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EARTH.In a bold announcement to all of His children, God unveiled the creation of an ultra-realistic metaverse where people can talk, learn, and work with other people, stating this unique new metaverse will be called “Universe.”

.This is more realistic than any virtual reality I’ve experienced before,. said reality enthusiast Miles Kann while walking through one of the Universe’s city parks in real-time. .I can literally smell the fresh air, touch the cool grass, and interact with other players in incredible ways.”

Another early adopter of God’s Universe demonstrated how detailed and immersive the player-to-player interaction was as she showed off her humble home, complete with husband, children, and dog. She thanked God for providing her with a sense of purpose and fulfillment unmatched by any competing product….

According to witnesses, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg screamed in terror at the frightening, immutable reality of God’s Universe.

Nothing makes a man nervous like Kill Gates talking about ANOTHER global pandemic threat that doesn’t exist yet, one that he’s already helpfully funded the ‘solution’ to. I sat down for some serious research.

Let’s start with a timeline. I encourage you to read the full article.

Smallpox: Threat or False Flag? A Telling Timeline

Timeline of Key Events Pertaining to Smallpox

NOVEMBER 2014
BILL GATES, CHIMERIX, WELLCOME TRUST, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, AND FDA . FUTURE SMALLPOX TREATMENT

In 2014, Bill Gates funded Durham-based Chimerix’s drug brincidofovir to allegedly treat Ebola. The trial was funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by Oxford University, and the FDA authorized the study. Brincidofovir was later branded as Tembexa, as the first antiviral drug used to treat smallpox, approved by the FDA in June 2021 (see below).

MARCH 11, 2021
MERCK SECURED OVER $300 MILLION FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND GATES FOUNDATION

JUNE 4, 2021
THE FDA APPROVED FIRST EVER ANTIVIRAL TREATMENT FOR SMALLPOX . CHIMERIX.S TEMBEXA (BRINCIDOFOVIR)

I will cover that headline in a moment.

OCTOBER 31, 2021
JOE BIDEN SIGNED EXECUTIVE ORDER 14051: DESIGNATION TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE

Biden wrote himself out of the loop on what gets released from the National Stockpile. I doubt that includes live smallpox samples but it certainly does include the stockpiled smallpox vaccines. This would be useful if somebody wanted to engineer a smallpox variant immune to the existing treatment so that a new treatment would need to be purchased.

Such as the Tembexa approved four months previous.

NOVEMBER 9, 2021
BILL GATES WARNED GOVERNMENTS OF A SMALLPOX TERROR ATTACK WHILE REQUESTING TENS OF BILLIONS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER 16, 2021
15 ALLEGED VIALS OF SMALLPOX FOUND AT MERCK FACILITY IN PA

Smallpox is not supposed to exist ANYWHERE in the private sector. Like an armed nuclear warhead, mere possession of smallpox is a war crime. But we haven’t seen yet if it’s confirmed; not that a confirmation or denial means much at this point.

FDA approves drug to treat smallpox

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4 June 2021

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Tembexa (brincidofovir) to treat smallpox. Although the World Health Organization declared smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease, eradicated in 1980, there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon.

Because smallpox is eradicated, the effectiveness of Tembexa was studied in animals infected with viruses that are closely related to the variola virus. Effectiveness was determined by measuring animals. survival at the end of the studies. More animals treated with Tembexa survived compared to the animals treated with placebo. FDA approved Tembexa under the agency’s Animal Rule, which allows findings from adequate and well-controlled animal efficacy studies to serve as the basis of an approval when it is not feasible or ethical to conduct efficacy trials in humans.

That sounds familiar.

The most common side effects when using Tembexa are diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

This is assumed, right? Because they JUST said they didn’t use humans for testing.

Tembexa received priority review, fast track and orphan drug designations.

Orphan drug?

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Supporting the development and evaluation of new treatments for rare diseases is a key priority for the FDA. The FDA has authority to grant orphan-drug designation to a drug or biological product to prevent, diagnose or treat a rare disease or condition. Orphan drug designation qualifies sponsors for incentives including:

-Tax credits for qualified clinical trials
-Exemption from user fees
-Potential seven years of market exclusivity after approval

So, they just gave the creator of Tembexa a financial motive to release smallpox.

What is this Tembexa goop, anyway?

Horowitz: Are elites planning a COVID repeat … with smallpox?

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Like the timeline, this linked article is also worthy of your full perusal.

…When Bill Gates is warning about smallpox right before vials of smallpox are discovered, and in the same week a Maryland woman tests positive for monkeypox, we should pay attention.

But that is not even the punch line. Just like with coronavirus, they were already working on a “cure.” On June 4, the CDC randomly approved a smallpox drug, Tembexa (brincidofovir), because “there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon.”

It is well known that no pharma company will spend hundreds of millions developing a drug for an eradicated disease, on which there is no way to earn billions in profit. Now, even if this drug was around before and they are repurposing it for smallpox, it still costs millions to go through the process. Why?

And speaking of this history of this drug, it sounds eerily similar to the drugs they have approved for COVID, including remdesivir. It turns out that like Gilead’s remdesivir and Merck’s molnupiravir, brincidofovir was a failed repurposed drug with safety concerns. Its maker, Chimerix, conducted three failed Phase 3 trials for the indication of adenovirus, and it flopped! It also comes with an FDA “black box” warning for use for smallpox, for increased mortality after taking more than just two doses, based on those same failed studies!

None of that was mentioned in the notice of authorization.

So just like remdesivir, the drug they plan to use is an expensive, on-patent drug, although repurposed. But unlike ivermectin, which was extraordinarily safe and effective for its original use . yet is vociferously opposed by the cabal . these drugs failed miserably in their original indications. Just like the other two failed COVID drugs approved by the FDA . baricitinib and tofacitinib . this smallpox drug comes with an FDA black box warning!

Typically, the cure is created after the illness, but in this case perhaps the illness is coming to “cure” what they perceive to be an ailment among we the people. And perhaps the proposed “cures” will look a lot like ailments, just as we have seen with the shots, remdesivir, baricitinib, and tofacitinib…

Fast-forward to Monday night outside Philadelphia, and Yahoo News reported that the CDC is quarantining and the FBI is investigating 15 “questionable vials” that were found in a Merck lab freezer in North Wales, Pa., with 10 labeled as “Vaccinia” and the remaining five labeled as deadly “Smallpox.”

As Yahoo reported: “The frozen vials labeled ‘Smallpox’ were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine research in Pennsylvania,” the CDC said in a statement to Yahoo News. “CDC, its Administration partners, and law enforcement are investigating the matter and the vials’ contents appear intact. The laboratory worker who discovered the vials was wearing gloves and a face mask. We will provide further details as they are available.”

“Vaccinia” is related to the pathogen that causes smallpox and was used as the foundation to create the vaccine for smallpox. In fact, the etymology of the word vaccine dates back to the late 18th century when cowpox was used as a precursor to smallpox vaccines. “Cow” in Latin is “vacca.”

It is well known that it’s illegal for Merck to hold such a vial in a freezer. What is Merck’s explanation for having this in its freezer in a random storage locker?

I wonder if it really was Merck. Nobody steals the equivalent of a live nuke then leaves it for a tech to find and report… with a helpful sign “this is a live nuke!” on the case. But I keep getting burned on “they couldn’t have been that stupid” so no bet.

Wanting something to contribute to the above guys’ excellent work, I took a look at the owner of Tembexa… Chimerix Inc.

I’m not an economist but those financials look bad. Company leadership is unremarkable, except most of the officers are also officers of other biotech companies. Seems like a conflict of interest to me. The hedge funds are so thick that I can’t tell who owns Chimerix. Vanguard owns about 4% from what I can tell.

Gates Foundation to fund Chimerix drug trial on Ebola patients in Africa

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19 November 2014

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it has committed $5.7 million to evaluate Chimerix’s drug brincidofovir and other potential treatments for the Ebola virus in Guinea and other African countries affected by the recent outbreak. The money will help scale up the production and drug trials of the drugs in coordination with national health authorities and the World Health Organization. Durham-based Chimerix announced last week that it will test its experimental antiviral on Ebola-stricken patients in West Africa in a clinical trial to be run by Oxford University. The drug, brincidofovir [now Tembexa], is one of two to be tested in the clinical trial. The trial will be funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by Oxford University on behalf of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium, or ISARIC, with operating support from Doctors Without Borders.

Hmm, Tembexa is a solution in search of a problem. How interesting that it just happened to be an effective cure for smallpox. As proven by testing on not-smallpox in not-humans.

Or, maybe that goop does something nasty to the human body and the Gates Foundation doesn’t care what excuse it takes to inject it into people. How DID that trial turn out? *checks* Discontinued; test subjects died too quickly to participate. Which begs the question of “why even bother?”

But it WAS tested on Ebola patients in the United States in 2014.

Thomas Eric Duncan, Ebola victim in Texas, has died

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8 October 2014

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the Ebola virus on U.S. soil, has died, hospital officials confirm.

Duncan, 42, was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he was admitted Sept. 28 and kept in isolation, according to spokesman Wendell Watson. Wendell said the death left officials with “profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment.”

Duncan became ill after arriving in the Texas city from Liberia on Sept. 20 to visit family, heightening concerns that the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record could spread in the United States.

The best way to avoid the next plague is 1. tight border control and 2. no direct contact with China, India or Africa. Of course, it’ll never happen. Politics aside, we have a population to ‘reduce’!

CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook said he believes Duncan won’t be the last person to be diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil.

“We’re going to see individual cases [of Ebola] in the U.S. However, that is not the same as an individual outbreak,” LaPook said Wednesday. “We need to beef up our ability to follow protocol as cases come into emergency rooms.”

Duncan carried the deadly virus with him from his home in Liberia, though he showed no signs when he left for the United States. He is believed to have contracted the disease while helping a pregnant woman sick with it. The woman later died.

On Monday, doctors had announced that they had begun treating Duncan with brincidofovir, an investigational medication in late-stage testing for other types of viruses. Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance video journalist who contracted Ebola while on assignment in West Africa, is also receiving the drug while being treated by doctors at a hospital in Omaha.

Brincidofovir is an oral antiviral drug being tested to fight more common viruses, including one that infects patients undergoing bone marrow transplants. Laboratory tests suggested it might also fight Ebola.

Brincidofovir is made by North Carolina-based Chimerix Inc., which said physicians sought federal permission to use the drug. The company did not identify the physicians making the request.

Mukpo survived; anybody’s guess if it was due to the drug. My guess is no.

It’s a huge red flag when a cure for a non-threat appears just before somebody who wants the planet’s population decimated announces the threat is about to become real. Events are still in motion so this isn’t as clean a post as I’d like, but this background is valuable enough that I’m releasing it now.

This post was almost worth doing just for the headline. You probably haven’t wondered what Mike Tyson is doing after he retired from professionally taking blows to the head and you probably won’t be surprised to find out. Two words: “Don King”.

He also tried acting but was no Mr. Miyagi. “Kickboxer 2” if you’re as attracted to bad movies as I am, but heads up, he doesn’t get much screen time.

Mike Tyson “died” while tripping on psychedelic toad venom

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By Jacquelynn Powers Maurice, 16 November 2021

Mike Tyson dropped dead from drugs . sorta.

.I “died” during my first trip,. the 55-year-old former world champion boxer told The Post at Wonderland, a Miami conference dedicated to psychedelics, microdosing and medicine. .In my trips I’ve seen that death is beautiful. Life and death both have to be beautiful, but death has a bad rep. The toad has taught me that I’m not going to be here forever. There’s an expiration date..

You’re not alone, Mike. Lots of married guys go through that stage. Nota bene, Tyson was one of the first celebrities to get a false rape accusation. When he was heavyweight champion of the world, women avoided him so much that he eventually forced himself on Miss Black America in his hotel room… yeah, sure.

The “toad” is Bufo alvarius, a Mexico amphibian otherwise known as the Sonoran Desert Toad. It spends seven months of the year living underground, but when it’s active, its venom can be smoked to produce a short psychoactive trip. The venom has long been used in traditional healing rituals but, with the popularity of LSD and ayahuasca among the rich and famous, .the toad. is getting a lot of more attention.

The current push for drug legalization is being driven by our astonishingly degenerate ruling class. One excitable eschatologist that I read made the interesting point that hallucinogens are almost unknown in the Old World. If hallucinogens enable dangerous contact with the spiritual realm then such a geographic restriction raises interesting questions.

Tyson discovered it four years ago. At the time, he was 100 pounds overweight, drinking and drugging. He was sluggish and unhappy. One of his friends suggested he try toad venom, and the athlete loved it.

.I did it as a dare,. Tyson recalled. .I was doing heavy drugs like cocaine, so why not?”

A gentle reminder that heavyweight boxers tend to lose their college educations.

“It.s another dimension. Before I did the toad, I was a wreck. The toughest opponent I ever faced was myself. I had low self-esteem. People with big egos often have low self-esteem. We use our ego to subsidize that. The toad strips the ego..

He came this close to what addicts call a moment of clarity… and then… the Tide Pod Challenge, level two.

He.s now tripped toad 53 times . sometimes three times in the same day. He said he lost 100 pounds in three months, started boxing again, and reconnected with his wife and children.

He.s also become an advocate for psychedelics, evangelizing all over the country.

.It has made me more creative and helps me focus,. he said. .I.m more present as a businessman and entrepreneur..

LSD debunked that lie, that psychedelics enhance your creativity. Hearing color and seeing music, it turns out, are no substitute for literacy and hard work.

Tyson is so into the trippy toad that he has a whole nursery of the amphibians at his ranch in Desert Hot Springs in Southern California. Venom on demand, if you will.

PETA calling in the DEA, if you will. Toad Lives Matter!

.People see the difference [in me],. he said. .It speaks for itself. If you knew me in 1989 you knew a different person. My mind isn’t sophisticated enough to fathom what happened, but life has improved. The toad’s whole purpose is to reach your highest potential. I look at the world differently. We’re all the same. Everything is love..

Segue to Wikipedia

During this period, Tyson’s problems outside the ring were also starting to emerge. His marriage to Robin Givens was heading for divorce, and his future contract was being fought over by Don King and Bill Cayton. In late 1988, Tyson parted with manager Bill Cayton and fired longtime trainer Kevin Rooney, the man many credit for honing Tyson’s craft after the death of D’Amato. Following Rooney’s departure, critics alleged that Tyson began to show less head movement and combination punching. In 1989, Tyson had only two fights amid personal turmoil. He faced the British boxer Frank Bruno in February. Bruno managed to stun Tyson at the end of the first round, although Tyson went on to knock Bruno out in the fifth round. Tyson then knocked out Carl “The Truth” Williams in the first round in July.

By 1990, Tyson seemed to have lost direction, and his personal life was in disarray amidst reports of less vigorous training prior to the Buster Douglas match.

That was at the peak of Tyson’s career. He hit the big-time, Don King got his hooks in… he’s a notorious figure in boxing history… and the rape conviction in 1992 didn’t help. Interesting that Tyson doesn’t know what happened to himself then. Fame happened. Greed happened. He left the crew that kept him grounded and partnered with the kind of people who turned Elvis fat and sickly.

Now he’s back on his feet as a spokesman for mind-altering drugs. That says everything about his current crop of friends.

End segue

Tyson is working on two brands of cannabis . including one called “Undefeated” . with a new team, including entrepreneur Adam Wilks and marijuana heavyweight Columbia Care Inc. His “Toad” line will not include actual psychedelic venom, but the strain is inspired by his wild experiences with the toad.

“Now with Tide Pod action!”

But with cities like Denver, Detroit and Oakland starting to decriminalize mushrooms, Tyson hopes he will be able to sell the real toad venom soon.

Social justice is so awesome, you start taking psychedelics to escape the reality that you work to create.

To that end, he’s invested in Wesana Health, a biotech company that is using psilocybin as a treatment for traumatic brain injuries.

“I’m not just an investor and spokesman. I’m also a client! This dope is DOPE, man!”

All five directors of Wesana Health are Jews: Chad Bronstein, Mitch Kahn, Robert Koffman, George Steinbrenner IV, and Ian Burnstein. If they’re 2% of the general population then that’s a random chance of about 0.0000003%. The company has engaged in at least one act of hostile takeover & gutting of a competitor. Yet another proud moment of vulture capitalism, which I’m sure is what Tyson had in mind when he fronted them his money.

They aren’t your friends, Mr. Tyson, and they didn’t turn you on to psychedelics because they care about your health.

.I.m fighting for psychedelics to become medicine you can buy over the counter,. he said. .I.m not finished. I want to do more. I want to be the best I can be in this field..

I had not intended to do a series on atheism, yet here we are. This time, an example of “everything is political” AKA “I saw you having unauthorized fun there!”

There is no good way to introduce ‘Harry Potter’ to the next generation

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By Pam Segall for Business Insider, aka the voice of Bobby Hill on King Of the Hill show, 14 November 2021

The original headline suggested by the URL… “SHOULD Harry Potter still be popular for the next generation?”… is intriguing. When I post an article and then change the title, it doesn’t change the URL. I assume that’s how it works for insider.com, too. The truth must have hit too close to the Commissariat.

While the Harry Potter series is reasonably panned by literary critics, Rowling accomplished what nobody else had in a century of Prog-ress: she made kids want to read again. God only knows when the general public will return to loving books enough to trample old ladies at a midnight release party. Good times.

Anyway.

“Harry Potter” needs no introduction. It was a once-in-a-generation phenomenon.

As the millennial Potterheads grew up, the books provided an idealist escape to the less complicated world of childhood. The Wizarding World became a safe place where magic was real and bravery, brains, and friendship always won.

…against child-abusing tyrannical government freakjobs that made psychopathic undead murderers look like good neighbors. Oh, what WAS Rowling’s secret for popularity with kids forced to attend public schools?

For early and late adopters alike, it seemed like a given that such a treasured series would be passed lovingly along to the next generation. But as often happens as we age, the real world began to seep in.

In 2020…

Nineteen years after the first movie was released…

…in a now-infamous series of tweets and a subsequent essay, the controversial “Harry Potter” author issued a spate of contentious statements about biological sex and gender. Rowling’s opinions led many to label her a trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

A TERF is generally characterized as a person who says they’re a feminist while espousing trans-exclusionary views. Common examples include saying that trans women aren’t women, barring trans women from women’s spaces, and conflating sex with gender.

These comments weren’t her first foray into transphobia. In addition to liking a couple of offensive tweets in 2018, she also tweeted in 2019 in support of a British woman who was fired over making transphobic comments.

Future generations of kids will not be able to enjoy the Harry Potter series because JK Rowling once tweeted support for a transphobe? Welcome to Cancel Culture.

Your work quality doesn’t matter.

Your integrity doesn’t matter.

Your rights to life and liberty don’t matter.

Even if you’re Atlas holding the entire world on your shoulders and taking you out would doom all humanity… doesn’t matter.

History must not remember that Narrative Violator JK Rowling ever made anything good or fun! Harry Potter was a BLM activist and single mother! The transhumanist who founded the Hogwarts Truth And Reconciliation Committee! Who outed Dumbledore as a heterosexual!

Then, amid the backlash of her 2020 tweets and essay, the author published a poorly received book under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, that follows a male serial killer who lures his victims by dressing as a woman.

I can’t imagine why Rowling began to use a pseudonym after being targeted by the queer community that she thought was her friend. Or why her next choice of villain was a… transphile, if that’s the right word.

Her actions disenchanted scores of fans, who have struggled to figure out what to do with their love for the series given the controversy around its creator.

As fans reexamine the books and amplify long-quieted critiques in the wake of this backlash, it’s become increasingly clear that Rowling’s personal views and biases made their way into the subtext of the series.

An author wrote what she wanted to write instead of repeating Approved Muscovite Content? Oh Noes!

“That was a fun book!”

“The author was outed as transphobic fifteen years after writing it.”

“I HATED THIS BOOK!!!”

Like so much of the media of yesteryear, the books are rightfully subjected to critiques and criticisms. Everything from the naming of Cho Chang, to the injustice that was the Patil twins’ Yule Ball look, to the absence of prominent Black and queer characters dulls the series’ luster.

That wasn’t even the Narrative back when the books were written. The word ‘Narrative’ was not even in common use. I think the Obama years were when I first noticed it cropping up.

Rowling’s attempts to revise history by sharing postcanonical details about characters and the Wizarding World at large . such as Dumbledore being gay and a minor, unknown character being Jewish . did little to quell these claims.

Learn this lesson and never forget it: APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS. NEVER PAY DANEGELD.

In a series that spans thousands of pages and often provides minute details, the thought that Rowling couldn’t spare a few words to mention a character’s race or sexuality already seems preposterous. But to imply that these facts were always present and that fans merely missed or failed to imagine them feels mildly insulting.

Rowling could not have made such mentions. That Narrative did not exist to be obeyed. But that Narrative exists now and everything that does not fit this moment’s Narrative must be burned Fahrenheit 451-style.

What miserable lives these people live. All their future and past reduced to a content-free Now that offers no handholds for the soul to resist the endless deluge of lies and thefts. No points of reference, neither family nor friends, nothing but your sackcloth-covered body sitting in the middle of a well-lit cage because everything you believe is a crime.

A graveyard for Truth and Joy.

Rowling, like any person, is only human. Although some of the series’ flaws exist as overt bigotry, other coded messages may have been the result of unconscious biases or internalized stereotypes. But intentional or not, the implications of these problematic portrayals left a stain on the series that even the most ardent Potterphiles can no longer ignore.

With each offensive comment Rowling shares, the Wizarding World becomes less of an escape.

Yo, you loveless author of this Harry-hating screed… YOU are who Rowling’s readers are trying to escape. They want to read stories about child-abusing teachers getting what they deserve. They want to hear about how they can develop enough power and authority to made a difference in the world without first promising their souls to Darkness. They want to imagine there’s a more functional and interesting world waiting for them outside the cultivated normality of Privet Drive. And they want to hear stories about how, even if they never met him, they can make their father proud.

Rowling being a feminist, may have come across that formula accidentally. The flops of her later works indicate thus. And yet, even a blind monkey sometimes finds a banana… and modern schools being the horror factories they are, methinks the next generation of kids to discover Harry Potter will also find tales of hope and family and Good triumphing over Evil.

Atheists normally skip the ‘evangelism’ step in favor of lies, gulags and firing squads, but this surplus professor err, associate professor of the Human Condition gave evangelism the good ol’ college try. As in, everything he knows about religion was taught to him in college by God-haters.

He begins by claiming victimhood, proceeds to explain how God-fearing people are no better than Godless people and ends by promising us a better quality of prison.

Are religious people more moral?

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By Dimitris Xygalatas, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology and Psychological Sciences, U. Connecticut, 13 November 2021

Yes, because we believe morality exists. That’s an important step in being moral. On that note, we begin the article.

Why do people distrust atheists?

A study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, people assumed that those who committed immoral acts, even extreme ones such as serial murder, were more likely to be atheists.

Although this was the first demonstration of such bias at a global scale, its existence is hardly surprising.

Quite so. The 20th Century is still in living memory. By the time the 21st Century is also over, I have every expectation that atheism will carry the death penalty across the entire planet.

Segue to Will Gervais’ research. I believe he’s Dimitris’ mentor.

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During the 2013 fall semester, University of Kentucky students will have the opportunity to delve into questions that explore some of society’s most deeply held beliefs. The ambitiously titled class, “A&S 300: The Meaning of Life – Psychology, Evolution, Religion, and Morality,” will be led by Psychology Professor Will Gervais who has focused his research around this very topic.

In the class, students can expect to investigate the psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of religious and moral beliefs through studies of cognitive and evolutionary science. Gervais hopes to use this lens to encourage students to not ask questions around whether or not a higher power exists, but instead question why people believe what they do and the implications of that on society.

In this podcast, Gervais touches on these issues and how now more than ever, it’s important that we use the tools of science to examine the roles of religion and morality.

I highlighted the parts that makes religious people not trust atheists: the latter keep trying to eliminate the legitimacy of any and all belief in God.

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Survey data show that Americans are less trusting of atheists than of any other social group. For most politicians, going to church is often the best way to garner votes, and coming out as an unbeliever could well be political suicide. After all, there are no open atheists in the U.S. Congress. The only known religiously unaffiliated representative describes herself as .none,. but still denies being an atheist.

So, where does such extreme prejudice come from?

“We atheists must deceive people into thinking we’re religious in order to seize the reins of worldly power from legitimate authorities. Meanwhile, why do they harbor such extreme prejudices against us?”

And what is the actual evidence on the relationship between religion and morality?

It is true that the world’s major religions are concerned with moral behavior. Many, therefore, might assume that religious commitment is a sign of virtue, or even that morality cannot exist without religion.

It does fit the observations of history. Even historical butchers such as Muslims at least believe in something other than their appetites.

Both of these assumptions, however, are problematic.

So are the moving goalposts. What are we discussing in this article?

1. “Are religious people more moral?”
2. “Why do people distrust atheists?”
3. “And what is the actual evidence on the relationship between religion and morality?”

Being an atheist, Dimitris can’t help but throw squid ink when the question of good versus evil comes up. I would, too, if the recent history of my religion was mass graves of innocents across the length of Eurasia.

For one thing, the ethical ideals of one religion might seem immoral to members of another. For instance, in the 19th century, Mormons considered polygamy a moral imperative, while Catholics saw it as a mortal sin.

The unwanted boys of Mormonism are sufficient proof that the Mormons chose evil. Dimitris tries very hard in these arguments, to avoid the concept of an objective standard of morality.

Moreover, religious ideals of moral behavior are often limited to group members and might even be accompanied by outright hatred against other groups. In 1543, for example, Martin Luther, one of the fathers of Protestantism, published a treatise titled “On the Jews and their Lies,. echoing anti-Semitic sentiments that have been common among various religious groups for centuries.

Luther was right. USA should have listened to him in between WW1 and WW2.

These examples also reveal that religious morality can and does change with the ebb and flow of the surrounding culture. In recent years, several Anglican churches have revised their moral views to allow contraception, the ordination of women and the blessing of same-sex unions.

That’s not Christianity changing. That’s atheists deceiving their way into the churches and sabotaging belief in God and God’s teachings.

And then Dimitris bitches that Christians don’t like or trust atheists!

In any case, religiosity is only loosely related to theology. That is, the beliefs and behaviors of religious people are not always in accordance with official religious doctrines. Instead, popular religiosity tends to be much more practical and intuitive. This is what religious studies scholars call “theological incorrectness..

Nobody but a cloistered, ignorant academic would use such an absurd and improper term for ‘sin’ or ‘evil’. Dimitris has been fed all the right answers during his personal Long March through academia and now is Credentialed to explain to people he doesn’t respect that our beliefs are no longer legitimate, and if we’ll just let our guard down and listen to him, then we won’t hate him for attacking and discrediting us anymore.

It’s no wonder that most atheists prefer the jackboot heel to the well-informed debate.

Buddhism, for example, may officially be a religion without gods, but most Buddhists still treat Buddha as a deity. Similarly, the Catholic Church vehemently opposes birth control, but the vast majority of Catholics practice it anyway. In fact, theological incorrectness is the norm rather than the exception among believers.

That doesn’t prove that the religious and the Godless are the same. It proves that the Godless sometimes masquerade as religious… which Dimitris has already admitted to.

For this reason, sociologist Mark Chaves called the idea that people behave in accordance with religious beliefs and commandments the “religious congruence fallacy..

Again, a term that nobody but a cloistered atheist would use. A Christian believing what the Bible says is not committing a “religious congruence fallacy”.

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How does the religious congruence fallacy shape the scientific study of religion? Most obviously, the religious congruence fallacy has inspired a search for religious influence on behavior that religious congruence implies should be there, and the most common form in which the religious congruence fallacy appears is when we explain behavior by connecting it to religious affiliations, practices, or beliefs that seem consistent with it and from which the behavior is thought to derive. But decades of research devoted to proving that religiosity is consequential in ways that congruence implies has produced a confusing hodge-podge of mixed results. This should not be surprising. Mixed results are exactly what we should expect if religious incongruence is ubiquitous.

Translation, people who claim a particular religion often do not act in tight accordance with that religion. Chaves’ fallacy is an observer assuming that because somebody identifies as, say, Christian, they will act in accordance with Christianity. That is what we Christians describe as the fallen nature of Man. What we should do is often not what we actually do, hence the need for a Great Physician to correct that flaw.

That is also the Fascists’ motivation in coercing the vaxx mandates. They see people refusing to get vaxxed for health or moral grounds and choose to “avoid the fallacy” of assuming we mean what we say. By increasing the pressure upon us, we can be forced into compliance regardless of the moralizing noises we make… and the rare few holdouts will be acceptable losses.

Well, then. Let the world watch and see which of us Christians is a shit talker! I am curious, too!

Interestingly, Chavens proceeds to describe how religious people can train themselves to believe in what they preach.

I want to be clear about something I am not saying. I am not saying that religious congruence is impossible. I am saying that it is rare, and much conventional practice does not appreciate how rare it is. Religious congruence is rare because achieving it in a specific situation requires one or more of three conditions.

Congruence can be achieved through conscious cognitive effort. We can analyze our different ideas. relations to each other and to action, and we can try to reduce recognized inconsistencies. But this does not come naturally, and it is hard to do. That is why it is rare. Congruence also can be achieved through social rather than cognitive effort. I can consult a religious leader about what my religion demands in a specific situation, and I can act according to his advice, thereby achieving congruence through deference to an authority.

“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11

Congruence also can be achieved socially through immersion in a homogeneous religious culture or through intense involvement with an all-encompassing group. But this sort of deference to religious authority or enveloping religious culture is unusual. Mark Regnerus studied religious influence on teenage sexuality, but I think he makes a point that is more generally true when he says that religious influence occurs only when people are embedded in a .a network of likeminded friends, family, and authorities,. and that such embeddedness is “relatively rare, [encompassing only] a small segment of American adolescents, excluding even most religious adolescents. (Regnerus 2007:203-4). Sacred canopies exist, but they are rare.

They are rare by the malicious acts of our government since 1965. They want the entire world miscegenated in order to prevent people from holding shared beliefs that might be in violation of State Narratives.

A third, and probably more important, way that religious congruence can be achieved is through experience that forges internalized, automatic responses to situations so that religious schemas spring automatically to mind in certain situations. When internalized responses or schemas are firmly in place, religious congruence can occur without cognitive effort or social control. Internalization promotes what social psychologists call heuristic processing and what cognitive psychologists call connectionist or parallel processing. Whatever the labels, the basic idea is the same: some human information processing is .implicit, unverbalized, rapid, and automatic, [and some is] explicit, verbalized, slow, and deliberate. (D.Andrade 1995:180).

“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.” -Colossians 3:9-10

Internalization promotes the former. Internalization is the most powerful route to congruence, but it too is difficult to achieve. Roy D.Andrade (1995:144) notes that there is a trade-off between how easy it is to learn a schema and how deeply that schema is internalized. Serial or systematic learning–the proposition-based, verbal kind of learning–is relatively easy. But the knowledge gained through serial learning is difficult to internalize in ways that allow it to shape our behavior without having to go through the laborious process of calling content to mind and consciously deciding what it implies about action in a particular situation. Learning that leads to heuristic or connectionist processing, on the other hand, usually is much more time-consuming. It can require hundreds or even thousands of experiential repetitions–not, importantly, mere verbal repetitions–to make a response to a situation automatic and largely unconscious.

This is where shit talkers come from. They learn the lingo and rituals but like the plant with shallow roots that Christ spoke of in His parable, when the hard times come they reveal the person never intended to go all the way.

Christ is jealous. He doesn’t want just your butt in the pew for every Sunday. He wants you 24/7.

Man, we Christians are 2,000 years ahead of these experts!

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This discrepancy among beliefs, attitudes and behaviors is a much broader phenomenon. After all, communism is an egalitarian ideology, but communists do not behave any less selfishly.

QED, his Step Two of writing this article was to claim that the religious are no better than the Communist. This despite the total lack of Christian death camps, Buddhist Killing Fields or International Hindu-Sponsored Terrorists.

Social scientific research on the topic offers some intriguing results.

When researchers ask people to report on their own behaviors and attitudes, religious individuals claim to be more altruistic, compassionate, honest, civic and charitable than nonreligious ones. Even among twins, more religious siblings describe themselves are being more generous.

But when we look at actual behavior, these differences are nowhere to be found.

Researchers have now looked at multiple aspects of moral conduct, from charitable giving and cheating in exams to helping strangers in need and cooperating with anonymous others.

In a classical experiment known as the “Good Samaritan Study,. researchers monitored who would stop to help an injured person lying in an alley. They found that religiosity played no role in helping behavior, even when participants were on their way to deliver a talk on the parable of the good Samaritan.

In another classical experiment, Christians are not calling for the mass starvation of people who accept the Pfizer Vaxx… but atheists are already locking us dissidents out of society completely, everywhere in the world, in hope and expectation that we’ll starve for refusing it.

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Moroccans protest mass vaccination rules; some skirmishes

By Tarik El-Barakah, AP, 27 October 2021

RABAT, Morocco — Demonstrators took to the streets in cities around Morocco on Wednesday, some clashing with police as they denounced the country’s decision to require coronavirus vaccination passes to be allowed to work and enter public venues.

The decision came into effect Oct. 21 and stipulates that Moroccans must provide proof of vaccination in order to enter their workplaces. In a statement, the government has said employers have “direct legal responsibility” to enforce the decision.

The pass is also required to access indoor services such as restaurants and banks as well as domestic and international travel.

“Why do people distrust atheists?” Because THIS!!!! This is happening everywhere in the world… this agenda of “no jab, no job”. Morocco. Austria. China. Australia. Canada. South America. UK. France. Everywhere.

The world government must have UNITY! Comirnaty = RNA Comity.

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Religion and rule of law

Not all beliefs are created equal, though. A recent cross-cultural study showed that those who see their gods as moralizing and punishing are more impartial and cheat less in economic transactions. In other words, if people believe that their gods always know what they are up to and are willing to punish transgressors, they will tend to behave better, and expect that others will too.

Such a belief in an external source of justice, however, is not unique to religion. Trust in the rule of law, in the form of an efficient state, a fair judicial system or a reliable police force, is also a predictor of moral behavior.

And indeed, when the rule of law is strong, religious belief declines, and so does distrust against atheists.

QED, Part Three: Dimitris argues that atheism is better than religion in fostering a docile, centrally-controlled population.

But that was never the goal of Christianity. Christ came to save souls, not build efficient governments. The latter is not the goal of most other religions, either.

Scientific evidence suggests that humans . and even our primate cousins . have innate moral predispositions, which are often expressed in religious philosophies. That is, religion is a reflection rather than the cause of these predispositions.

But the reason religion has been so successful in the course of human history is precisely its ability to capitalize on those moral intuitions.

Once again, we see the tired, old, discredited assumption that humanity is inherently good and the elimination of a small, small handful of troublemaking dissidents will surely lead to Utopia or Worker’s Paradise or whatever the current term is for Hell Upon the Earth… “vaccine of love”, likely as not.

According to psychologist Ara Norenzayan, belief in morally invested gods developed as a solution to the problem of large-scale cooperation.

Early societies were small enough that their members could rely on people’s reputations to decide whom to associate with. But once our ancestors turned to permanent settlements and group size increased, everyday interactions were increasingly taking place between strangers. How were people to know whom to trust?

Religion provided an answer by introducing beliefs about all-knowing, all-powerful gods who punish moral transgressions. As human societies grew larger, so did the occurrence of such beliefs. And in the absence of efficient secular institutions, the fear of God was crucial for establishing and maintaining social order.

In those societies, a sincere belief in a punishing supernatural watcher was the best guarantee of moral behavior, providing a public signal of compliance with social norms.

Today we have other ways of policing morality, but this evolutionary heritage is still with us.

Dimitris’ dangerous lack of education is manifest in his belief that “do unto others as to yourself” came from “survival of the fittest”. But he’s unable to believe otherwise without committing a Narrative Violation. Everything MUST have been primordial evolution, otherwise there exists a transcendental space alien that one might call ‘God’!

He’s also stupid to simultaneously believe that 1. evolution is a natural, inevitable, unguided process and 2. evolution is what atheists do once they seize power.

Although statistics show that atheists commit fewer crimes than average, the widespread prejudice against them, as highlighted by our study, reflects intuitions that have been forged through centuries and might be hard to overcome.

You see? It is not the Communist’s fault that he is forced to starve, enslave and murder us all for fun and profit. It’s our fault because we refuse to abandon Christ Jesus for Klaus Schwab, who promises to apply ‘morality’ directly to microchips implanted in our brains.

That is not metaphor or exaggeration. The injections have already begun.

I keep trying to wake up from reality. It’s too absurd to be taken seriously anymore.

One day, by the promise of Christ my Savior, I will.

In closing, the atheist life path is well-defined. It begins at “there is no God” and ends at “we must kill God again”. Dimitris began at “religion came into existence only as an early stage of human moral evolution”, continued through “Communists are the real victims” and ended at “it’s time to get rid of obsolete religion entirely”. And he wonders why the religious do not like him.

It is hard to evangelize one’s religion when it consists of nothing but destruction, ego and the State-sanctioned persecution of malcontents. The best that Dimitris could do was raise the question then change the subject.

This article in my drafts is a bit dated. As I look forward to celebrating the holidays, however, this is the kind of thing that our government is likely to do… again… to kill off all joy and tradition in the world.

Austin activates emergency alert due to severe COVID-19 ‘crisis’

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By Peter Aitken, 9 August 2021

Health officials in Austin issued an emergency alert over the weekend that the COVID-19 situation in the city was “severely worsening” and has reached a “critical” point.

The “Warn Central Texas” alert system was designed for use during a disaster, which health officials say the city is experiencing.

According to the Texas Department of Health, there are over 3,400 active cases of COVID-19 in Travis County.

The actual death toll is… arguably, a placeholder not even a number.

The alert was distributed on Saturday by text, phone calls and email to residents in Austin and nearby areas of Travis County.

“Our hospitals are severely stressed and there is little we can do to alleviate their burden with the surging cases,” Austin-Travis County Health Authority’s Desmar Walkes said in a statement. “The public has to act now and help or we will face a catastrophe in our community that could have been avoided.”

“Look at how important we are! You aren’t doing your fair share, normies! Trust the Science and his prophet, Fraudi the Midget!”

Walkes explained that hospital bed availability and critical care are extremely limited for anyone . not just COVID-19 victims.

Not at capacity, mind, just “extremely limited”. Which begs the question, where did those five trillion dollars of emergency Coof funding go?

Austin and the surrounding county elevated the COVID-19 risk level to stage 5, which is the highest level of alert.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide ban on mask and vaccine mandates on July 29, saying “the path forward relies on personal responsibility,” Axios reported.

Not if Austin has anything to say about it:

Officials urged residents to stay informed on COVID-19, vaccinations and testing by visiting http://www.AustinTexas.gov/COVID19 or calling 3-1-1 (512-974-2000).

This kind of call to prayer using the emergency systems was pioneered by, of course, my California. *sigh* This one is typical:

California uses text alert to warn millions of COVID-19 spread

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8 December 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) . California authorities sent a cellphone text alert Tuesday to two major regions of the nation’s most populous state to tell millions that the coronavirus is spreading rapidly and asking them to stay home except for essential activities.

The noon blast to the state-designated 11-county Southern California region and 12-county San Joaquin Valley region was sent by the state Office of Emergency Services.

The text also urged people to wear masks and physically distance.

How was this not a call to prayer? “Behold, all ye people in the land! The prophets, the CDC, have decreed that today is a holy day of fasting and penance! Let none go about their daily routine! Instead, clothe your face in sackcloth and abstain from sexual, er, social relations! Visit the dissidents in your pod and warn them of the burning itchy diseases that are the righteous fate of those who doubt!

“Trust the Science! Praise Science! Praise your leaders for being so holy that they need not obey their own decrees!”

That wasn’t sarcasm. Not anymore.

Both regions came under increased restrictions this week after the capacity of hospital intensive care units dropped below 15 percent. The restrictions will remain in effect for at least three weeks.

The regions will be eligible to emerge from the order on Dec. 28 if ICU capacity projections for the following month are above or equal to 15 percent, the emergency services office said.

That atheist call to prayer was a last-ditch effort to cancel Christmas. I will never forget or forgive, that I had to commit a crime just to visit family in L.A. for Christmas 2020. Kudos to the Sherriff for publicly refusing to enforce those restrictions:

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said last week that since March he focused on educating people about virus-related restrictions, but now will crack down on .super-spreader events..

Meaning, the parties that the Elites attend when they aren’t being sober and shrouded for the cameras.

Meanwhile, three counties northwest of Los Angeles are planning an attempt to separate themselves from the Southern California region.

Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties plan to seek approval to create a smaller Central Coast region if the tri-county ICU capacity exceeds 15 percent in the next three weeks, the counties said in a statement Monday.

.We’re really distraught that we’re being lumped in with Southern California where they have more severe problems than we have,. Lynn Compton, chair of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors, said in an interview.

It’s frustrating to watch so many people try to avoid the blatantly criminal mandates without actually opposing them. But thanks be to God, thus far, everybody still wants to celebrate the holidays.

This Christmas season, dare to be normal!

As Dark Helmet said in the movie Spaceballs, “Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb”. This ‘heroic, sensational’ Cuckservative didn’t even make it into political office before begging mercy from the enemies of America.

‘I feel like throwing up’: GOP trucker who defeated Democrat NJ senate president with $200 campaign admits to being overwhelmed by his victory and meets with Muslim leaders to apologize for calling Prophet Muhammad a ‘pedophile’

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By Brian Steiglitz, 11 November 2021

You make me feel like puking, too, Ed. How did you not see this coming? With a spine like yours, how do you even stand upright?

A New Jersey trucker who shot to a shock victory in the state’s senatorial elections has told of his shock at winning, as he met with Muslim leaders to apologize for a 2019 tweet calling the Prophet Mohammed a ‘pedophile.’

Ed Durr, 58, who claimed to have spent less than $200 on a campaign that ousted one of the most powerful political figures in New Jersey politics, spoke to reporters after Democrat favorite and incumbent Steve Sweeney conceded the race on Wednesday.

Durr, who is a Republican, said, ‘I feel like I’m about to throw up. This is all new to me. It’s all overwhelming, but I am very happy that the voters selected me. I’m going to earn that vote and I’m going to prove them right.’

Yay ‘Murica! We’re throwing the bums out at last! Build the Wall! Drain the… too late, never mind.

After [digging up a tweet dated September 2019 calling Islam a false religion and Mohammed a pedophile] following his election win, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on Durr to either denounce Islamophobia or resign as senator. Durr met with leaders from CAIR’s New Jersey chapter on Wednesday night for two hours, after which he addressed his tweet in a news conference, ABC 6 reported.

‘I stand against Islamophobia and all forms of hate and do commit to that,’ he said. Asked what he was thinking when he made the tweet, Durr said ‘I could not recall. I don’t even remember what I had for dinner last week.’

Ed Durr, you represent everything wrong with modern America… particularly its attention span. You are a disgrace to your people, your ancestors and your own, yellow gizzard. The Senate will be a natural fit for you because selling out your constituents already is.

Dailymail went ahead and posted a bunch of Ed’s other, potentially offensive social media posts. I approve because it’ll work to defuse all the other blackmail that Globohomo has waiting to unleash upon Eddie’s tender, virgin backside. Which answers this post’s leading question. How do you, an outside underdog, win elected office in an age of rigged elections, on a shoestring budget? By providing huge amounts of blackmail-able material in advance. CAIR didn’t break a sweat when they broke Ed to his leash.

We ain’t voting our way out of this.

Durr acknowledged his social media posts in a news conference following Sweeney’s concession and said, ‘You get behind the keyboard, you don’t see a person and you don’t consider the other person. I just wrote something that I don’t mean to offend anybody.’

“I didn’t mean to offend anybody when I called Mohammed a pedophile! I didn’t even realize that the other people on the Internet are people! Everybody should be free to worship whatever they think God is, any way they want!”

He continued, ‘I support everybody’s right to worship in any manner they choose and to worship the God of their choice. I support all people and I support everybody’s rights. That’s what I am here to do, work for the people and support their rights,’

There’s no such thing as a “God of your choice”. Perhaps that is why Mohammed couldn’t be bothered to practice the religion he founded? Because Islam’s founder knew Islam was a lie? He *is* the one who would have known….

I once heard a joke, that the way to get elected in modern America is to take pictures of yourself ‘loving a child’ and mailing the negatives to Soros. Ed “Durrp” did the next best thing.