November 29, 2015

"Reason for Gunman’s Rampage Unknown"

That's an actual headline... reason unknown.

He is reported to have said "No more baby parts" when taken into custody.

What possible meaning could that have had?

It's a real mystery what on earth could have motivated someone to do such a thing.

November 25, 2015

It's November, and the numbnuts are fawning!

Old Man Winter is awakening, scratching his balls, and wondering what's in the refrigerator for breakfast.

November 24, 2015

Twitter reports of white supremacists shooting protesters in Minneapolis

#4thprecinctshutdown

According to reports on Twitter, several armed white men were asked to leave the BLM protest over the Jamar Clark shooting and, while leaving, turned and shot at the crowd, injuring several protesters.

There is a fair amount of bullshit and fake accounts among the reports, making it difficult to discern what is going on.

November 23, 2015

The remarkable aspect of Trump's people "cheering on 9/11 in Jersey City" thing is being missed:

Trump has a number of interesting sources of "information", and he seems to have adapted this little fun fact from something else.

There is no question that Trump gets fed a lot of conspiracy nonsense from the internet, through whatever channel he trusts. For example, he was certainly up to date on various aspects of Obama birtherism, including the "forged birth certificate" claims that circulate in the internet fever swamps.

Then, there are the "crime statistics" originally sourced from a neo-nazi website, which he tweeted this weekend.

His identification of "Jersey City" as the location of people allegedly celebrating the 9/11 attacks is actually more revealing of where he gets his information, since it is one of the variants of the "five dancing Jews" 9/11 myth:

http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Dancing_Israelis

"Witnesses saw them jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact (5). Later on, other witnesses saw them celebrating on a roof in Weehawken, and still more witnesses later saw them celebrating with high fives in a Jersey City parking lot."

It's of passing interest that he seems to have pulled this story, with a change from "Jews" to "Muslims", out of the same well of internet conspiracy theories where he tends to get most of his other "information".

November 22, 2015

Question about bomb threats

Can anyone recall a situation in which someone made a telephone call stating that a bomb was at a location, and a bomb was actually detonated or found there?

This business of "the building was evacuated because a bomb threat was phoned in" seems like an open invitation to cause disruptions at very low cost.

Who goes through the trouble of constructing and planting a bomb, and then makes a telephone call to conveniently state where it is?

Clearly suicide bombers don't do it, and vehicular bombs arrive shortly before detonation.

So I'm wondering why these types of telephone threats are given any credence, unless there are some number of reported bombs which turn out to be bombs.

November 19, 2015

Construction Complete on 9/11 Truther Memorial

http://www.theonion.com/article/construction-complete-on-911-truther-memorial-18034

Created by a design team who chose to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals from the Bilderberg Group, the memorial has as its centerpiece the "Truth Towers," a 60-foot-tall replica of the World Trade Center that houses a museum devoted to unanswered questions surrounding the attacks. Below it lies a pentagonal reflecting pool from which emerge 18 steps leading to the base of the monument, with each stair intended to symbolize one of the 18 Great Lies of the 9/11 conspiracy.

"This is a place where Americans can come to reflect on the most elaborate hoax in our nation's history," said Carol Bowerman, 53, wiping away tears as she walked passed a 15-foot granite cylinder representing the cruise missile used to fake a plane crash at the Pentagon. "On this hallowed ground, those of us who refuse to accept the official version of events can mourn the day the United States was taken over by a crypto-fascist cabal more powerful than anyone can imagine."

"It's so moving," Bowerman added.

The museum is free and open to the public, though $10 is charged for admittance to the theater screening an endless 12-second loop of the building at World Trade Center 7 collapsing, an event a modulated voice-over describes as an obvious controlled demolition

November 17, 2015

The incontrovertible reality of Germany's demographic problem

If the immediate consequences of that population age distribution chart for Germany are not clear, let me spell it out for you: Germany needs a shitload of young people, and soon.

Here's the chart for 2012 for the EU generally (so advance that social service time-bomb by another three years):






All the gum-flapping in the world is not going to change the stark reality of that picture, and what action it requires.


Europe needs a sudden and significant influx of people up to their mid-to-late 20's if they are going to support their social systems, and they can't wait 20 years for that to happen.

There is no getting around that fact.

They are facing an unsustainable situation when that big hump moves up another ten to fifteen years. Fucking like rabbits at this point won't fix the problem.

They need young people. They need them soon. And they need a lot of them.

November 17, 2015

Please don't fall for it

This is what they want:

November 12, 2015

Trump and Carson's weird wage disconnects at the GOP debate

First, as we all are assumed to know, increasing wages hurts employment.

As Ben Carson put it, every time the minimum wage goes up, African American unemployment goes up. The proof of his statement practically writes itself. When African Americans weren't paid at all, there was near 100% African American employment. I was expecting him to expressly point that out.

Trump pointed out that increasing wages hurts the economy. Then he said that illegal immigration depresses wages. Did he actually mean to say both of those things in the same debate?

November 6, 2015

We're busted. The Pyramids ARE full of food

Look. I didn't make this up. These are US government scientists that came up with it:



And it's not just grain. It's got meat, dairy, vegetables, fats, and just about anything you'd eat in there.