Science Is The Belief In The Ignorance Of The Experts

For the past decade we have been hearing statements like "the science is over".

The statement, free of emotion, speaking in terms of science, is exactly wrong.

Science is never over.

Today, by way of Prager U, I viewed a video of Physicist Brian Keating, who shared the statement of 

Science Is The Belief In The Ignorance Of The Experts

Richard Feynman

When you hear the term "consensus science", hide your wallet.

Think Little

Think Little is brief book, a collection of essays if you will, in which Wendell Berry describes the country paradise of his Kentucky homeland.

Published in 1969, the collection uniformly professes a love for the country and a disdain for progress.

While I disagree with most of the conclusions, conclusions based a willful ignorance of reality, the writing is beautiful, the thoughts deep and haunting.

The writing reminds me of the Robert Roark books I read long ago, filled with a love for countryside land and the men who lived carefully within it.

I have a neighbor who was a student of this author at the University of Kentucky.

Fighting for Free Speech

 I loved the National Lampoon magazine, and was so upset when it winnowed away. The monthly included indelible cartoons, articles and graphics. P.J. O'Rourke was an editor for that magazine

P.J. O'Rourke has written books that I have also enjoyed.

Until now I had never connected to two, if not for this linked Just the News clip that describes a legal fight for for free speech against modern media censors. 

Lester Holt Wins the Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award

In 2016 Lester Holt moderated a Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

For this debate it was learned that Holt and Donna Bazile conspired to feed Hillary Clinton questions before the televised debate.

They cheated, and Clinton lost the debate anyway.

Their punishment, Holt gets an award and Brazile gets a network job.

An example of his objective news worthy opinion, as shared on Breitbart.

Holt anchors NBC Nightly News, and recently made headlines after a cartoon character representing him made a November 2020 appearance on Stephen Colbert’s “Our Cartoon President,” in which he asserted “you’d have to be a ‘f*king idiot’ to vote for President Donald Trump.”

During Holt's acceptance speech,  he made the statement...

"Fairness is overrated."

I've always though this cheating bastard deserved the Davis Cup, for being asshole of the week, He can wear the toilet seat for a crown for all I care.

The circle jerk is left handed.

 

Gun Logic

1. Eleven teens die each day because of texting while driving. Maybe it's time to raise the age of Smart Phone ownership to 21. 
2. If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be Mayberry, USA. 
3. The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement  
4. Legal gun owners have 300 million guns and probably a trillion rounds of ammo. Seriously, folks, if we were the problem, you'd know it. 
5. When JFK was killed, nobody blamed the rifle. 
6. The NRA (National Rifle Association) murders 0 people and receives nothing ( 0 $$$$) in government funds. Planned Parenthood kills 350,000 babies every year and receives $500,000,000 in tax dollars annually. 
7. I have no problem with vigorous background checks when it comes to firearms. While we're at it, let's do the same when it comes to immigration, Voter I.D., and candidates running for office. 
8. Folks keep talking about another Civil War. One side knows how to shoot and probably has a trillion rounds. The other side has crying closets and is confused about which bathroom to use. Now tell me, how do you think that would end? 
9. Don’t be afraid to share this. There’s more logic and common sense expressed here than probably anything you have seen on the news today.

Shared with me by a friend.

Cassie Comes

 Our puppy running toward the camera.

Cassie

 This is my first post from Rumble, a three year old video of our puppy Cassie.

A Rat Story

A tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat.  It had no price tag but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. 

Not as good as the Rotten Johnny joke, but definitely amusing, to some.

He took it to the old shop owner and asked, "How much for the bronze rat?"  

"Ahhh, you have chosen wisely!  It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story," said the wise old Chinaman.  

The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story". 

As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster. 

A couple of blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing.  Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay. 

Again, after a couple of blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster. 

Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay. 

Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned. 

The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown. 

"Ahhh," said the owner, "You come back for story?" 

 The tourist said, “No, I just wanted to know if you had a Bronze Democrat.” 

Burqa Ban

Meanwhile, here in the United States, we are headed in the other direction.

Switzerland: Voters Approve 'Burqa Ban': The referenda reflect the determination of a majority of Swiss voters to preserve Swiss traditions and values in the face of runaway multiculturalism and the encroachment of political Islam. 

Isn’t it refreshing to see the  misogyny argument used correctly.

The Love Dress

A woman stopped by, unannounced, at her son's house. She knocked on the door then immediately walked in.  She was shocked to see her daughter-in-law lying on the couch, totally naked. Soft music was playing, and the aroma of perfume filled the room.

"What are you doing?!" she asked.

"I'm waiting for Mike to come home from work," the daughter-in- law answered.

"But you're naked!" the mother-in-law exclaimed.

"This is my love dress," the daughter-in-law explained.

"Love dress? But you're naked!”

"Mike loves me and wants me to wear this dress," she explained." It excites him to no end. Every time he sees me in this dress, he instantly becomes romantic and ravages me for hours on end. He can't get enough of me”!

The mother-in-law left.

When she got home, she undressed, showered, put on her best perfume, dimmed the lights, put on a  romantic CD, and lay on the couch, waiting for her husband to arrive. Finally, her husband came home. He walked in and saw her lying there so provocatively...

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"This is my love dress," she whispered sensually.

"Needs ironing," he said. "What's for dinner?

 He never heard the gunshot.