Events. Of a current nature.

Current Events 02-24-2015

Nobody Gets a Pass on Racism, Regardless of the Melanin Concentration God Gave Them The Left’s War on White America

Tyranny FCC Republicans launch last-ditch effort to sink net neutrality plan

Whenever proposed new laws are not subject to public review (i.e. Affordable Healthcare Act), it is because the proposed law contains things the politicians KNOW will cause the bill to never pass. Didn’t we fight a war once over that, something about representation and taxation?

Why Is This Surprising? Lesbian Admits She Wants Her Daughter To Be Gay

Homosexuality has always been Nurture, not Nature. This is precisely what opponents of Faux-Marriage and “Gay Adoption” have been saying all along. Perversion can’t reproduce under normal circumstances, so recruitment is the only option. Once we allow perverts to adopt, or buy babies (slavery), they have a captive mind that can be warped, and the result is, to quote the Bible, an abomination.

They Are An Anachronism That Have Only Succeeded In Driving Up Costs and Sending All Our Manufacturing Jobs Overseas 50 Years Of Shrinking Union Membership, In One Map

Current Events 02-23-2015

This is Only Symptomatic of the Bigger Issue Oscar protest planned over all-white nominees

The bigger issue is that Oscars are not earned – they are granted. The Academy is an oligarchy of old white guys who grant Oscars to whomever they deem worthy. And these yahoos want to make it worse by injecting affirmative action into the mix? Lame.

The Solution At Last Hooray for FrankenMosquitoes in the Florida Keys!

Mosquitos are parasites, that carry other parasites. It’s high time we made their whole species extinct.

Current Events 02-18-2015

Oopsy! Krispy Kreme runs ‘KKK Wednesday’ – social media gaffe aligns doughnut peddler with white supremacists

New Picture of England’s Own Monica Lewinsky Found Possible Anne Boleyn portrait found using facial recognition software

This Is Not News Millennials ditching their TV sets at a record rate

We are not talking talking about the abandonment of the television screen, but how it is used. If you want any kind of home theater, you need a large screen, preferably wall-mounted. If you want to game, gaming looks cooler on a larger screen. However, the idea that you need a 3rd party to charge you to organize your viewing schedule remotely, package it with a liberal spritzing of advertising, and deliver this to your home via cables, is a dinosaur. I personally have not had “television” for years. Once I discovered Usenet and built my first UnRAID server, I was free to download all my programming via the internet. If you happen to live in North America, there are multiple streaming options available, if you’d rather not have to learn how to use any new technology.

I have an UnRAID server, an array of five SATA hard drives and one SSD used for caching. This holds all the data for our family (pictures, home videos, TV, movies, music, and miscellaneous data). This is connected to a MacMini, which runs Plex. This connects to our TV and speaker system, which thanks to a Harmony remote to tie everything together, provides a very user-friendly GUI, similar to what you see when you browse video on Netflix. All of us have iPads. The Plex app transforms all of them into portable televisions, so each child can (when we allow them screen time) watch what they want when they want to see it. Gone forever are the scheduling conflicts that my generation had to endure (the old Knight Rider vs. Dukes of Hazzard debate). The server handles downloading of new shows as they come out. It also runs Madsonic, which streams our immense music library to these same devices. With the use of a UE Boom, we can have pleasant music playing in any room of the house, and the kids can listen to whatever they like via headphones. Most recently, I set up a Calibre server on the MacMini with nearly 800 books and short stories, so the kids have a vast digital library of reading material which, once again, they access on their tablet. I have moved us to pure, localized, digital content, versus the old analog models that were once your only choice. It’s efficient. It’s convenient. And it’s very, very cool.

America Needs Competent Leadership. That’s It. We Have Not Had it For 8 Years, And It’s Killing People. What a Statesman would do Today

Current Events 02-17-2015

Happy President’s Day! The Spoof That Fooled the Associated Press

Higher “Education” Seems to Keep Generating Piss Poor Leaders Glenn Reynolds on Walker’s Horrible Lack of College Credentials

They Want War!? I Say Let’s Have Ourselves Another Tripoli. Rev. Graham: ‘Imagine the Outcry if 21 Muslims Had Been Beheaded by Christians? … The Storm is Coming’

Current Events 02-16-2015

Whaddya’ Know – God’s Design Turns Out to Be Better The Foods That Will Survive the Disasters of the Future

Education ≠ Competence The Walker-Stupid, Obama-Genius Myth

Most of these Democrats are no better than their Republican counterparts – they just receive better marketing.

Current Events 02-04-2015

I Am NOT an Anti-Vaxxer – I’m What You Could Call a Delay-Vaxxer Rand Paul: ‘The State Doesn’t Own Your Children’

I don’t think it is either wise or effective to give newborns a pile of vaccines all at once. Their immature immune systems are not capable of generating as strong an immune response as they can when they are older – hence the need for so many booster shots. It also makes them very sick (it did ours, the one time I let myself be pressured into giving the vaccines). If a baby is breastfed, as they should be, then they get their immunities from their mother. If you wait until they are 1 or 2 years old, and just follow the recommended shot schedule from the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/child/catchup-schedule-pr.pdf), the shots are properly staggered, and you also don’t need so many. If your wife is opting to be a mother as opposed to shifting the responsibility to daycare, then this greatly reduced exposure, coupled with the breastfeeding, means you can safely wait to give the vaccines.

I absolutely understand why the State would want to mandate vaccines, since there are all these wackadoo anti-vaxxer nutters running about with their non-vaccinated kids putting all the rest of us at risk. At the same time, I do not appreciate the none-too-subtle threat of prosecution or calling DFS that you get when you inform your pediatrician, politely but firmly, that you prefer to wait until the child is a little older before giving the vaccines. This is why I tend to take a more Libertarian stance on this – they are MY children, not the Government’s. I advise those of you currently starting up your families to find yourself an OB and a pediatrician who is in agreement with you on this and will back your play.

Oswald Was a Mentally Unstable Man Who Was Given a Vital Nudge By Agents of the Cuban Government He Met at a Fateful Party in Mexico City – It Was Castro’s Reprisal For Repeated Failed Assassination Attempts By the CIA What the Warren Commission Didn’t Know

The cover-up was the various agencies going into full CYA mode since they had intelligence that could have prevented Kennedy’s assassination but which, like the 9/11 attacks, they ignored.

Yet Another Example of How the “War” on Drugs Has Decimated Civil Liberties How Uncle Sam Became a Bank Robber; Civil forfeiture and money laundering laws let the IRS seize the accounts of legitimate businesses.

Current Events 02-03-2015

I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords AI Won’t End the World, But It Might Take Your Job

The Porn Industry is a Cancer Feminism’s self-defeating about-face on porn

Porn equals rape and slavery. It desensitizes to violence against women and children, and transforms normal men into the very perverse monsters that feminists think we all are.

Vaccination is a Modern Medical Miracle, Invented by a Christian Growing Up Unvaccinated; I had the healthiest childhood imaginable. And yet I was sick all the time.

Piracy is Bandits Murdering Ships’ Crews in International Waters, Not the Benign Practice of Information Freedom In Memory Of The Liberties Lost In The War On Piracy

The MPAA is a clear and present danger to individual liberty worldwide.

I’m From Midlands, One of the More Conservative Nation States in North America Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?

Current Events 02-02-2015

The Entire Business Model is Antiquated and Broken Hollywood’s Release Delays Breed Pirates

At MOST, there should be no more than a two month delay from when movies are released in the theatre and when they are released digitally. Instead, we nearly always have to wait at least six months, some times longer, to get a decent copy of anything. When you live in a town that has no theatre, and the nearest cinema is a four-hour drive away, and there are no commercial copies available for sale in the whole country, what else can you do but get your movies from BitTorrent or UseNet? Propping up the dead carcass of the the cinema industry, trying to control the sale of movies with arbitrary zones and ineffective encryption schemes, only causes people to work that much harder to remove these unnecessary restrictions and get the instant access to content they desire.

Pointless, Stupid, and Obscene Why I Hate the Super Bowl

I, for one, refuse to participate in this American religious holiday. Thank God I live in a country where American football is about as popular as curling or cricket.

I Wish Is Ben Carson a Man of Destiny?

I have become too much of a cynic about politics to hold out much hope that such a man could ever be elected to political office in the United States. If he could secure the nomination, I would enthusiastically support his campaign and happily vote for the first black man to become President of the United States (as opposed to the guy who only plays a black guy on TV). Unfortunately, the ruling class in American politics has already chosen the players in the next game of Blue vs. Red, and in 2016 we peons will be allowed the illusion of choosing them by voting, a process about as substantial as voting for High School Class President.

Good luck Ben Carson. You’re a great man and you’d undoubtedly make a great President. Sadly, the American political machine hates nothing more than the prospect of having great men slip past the gatekeepers into meaningful political office.

Current Events 01-30-3015

I’ve Been Saying It For Years: Give Us A Superbowl Ad Show. Lose the Useless “Football”. Dish DVR Lets You Skip the Football And Watch Nothing But Super Bowl Ads

Because Ninjas Need Bling, Too Inside the Dangerous World of Amateur ‘Ninja’ Gold Miners

Edison Had Thugs. Cecil B. DeMille Kept a Wolf and Guns To Defend Against Edison’s Thugs

Hope So. They Only Have Nine Months. Will flying cars ever get off the ground?

And You Thought the Closet Was Empty Pedophilia and the American Future

We Are Becoming Ancient Rome The Slippery Slope to Pedophilia

Rome was a horror show of perversion. Yet that’s where we are being forcibly herded by the perverse elites. First we are desensitized to the least offensive denizens of the “closet”. Then one after the other, the remaining taboos are trotted out of the closet until we get a world in which literally any atrocity has been re-defined as “normal”. I’m going to say it again: homosexuality is sin. It will never be anything else, no matter how hard some folks try to make it be otherwise.

Current Events 01-29-2015

But Hey, Lets Just Keep Using Tax Dollars to Prop Up Teacher’s Unions and Failing School Districts 5 Facts About Charter Schools

Yet Another Piece of Ubiquitous Tech That We All Take For Granted How the Pencil Sharpener Was Invented

Nope. Just A Zone of “You Don’t Get to Spy On Me” Tor and Encryption Have Created a ‘Zone of Lawlessness,’ Justice Department Says

Straw Men No, Department of Justice, 80 Percent of Tor Traffic Is Not Child Porn