In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With calls by some for more of a “strong man” approach to politics, here is a rather open and honest discussion between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Ferdinand Marcos, then President of the Philippines.
The merging of the mechanical and the living continues apace, but instead of adding organic brain power to machines, scientists are making biological androids/gynoids (AKA “bioroids”) possible by making robotic skin from human fibroblasts.
“Technologies are blurring the line between human and machine. Now, scientists are taking the next step: developing human-like skin for robots.
“Though it sounds like the stuff of science fiction, in a study published Thursday in the journal Matter, researchers described how they developed skin tissue for robots that looks and moves just like ours. ‘We have shown that living skin tissue can be used as a coating material for robots,’ Shoji Takeuchi, an engineer at the University of Tokyo and lead author of the study, told Insider. ‘This result has the potential to make robots look more human-like.’
“To craft the skin, the team first submerged a robotic finger in a cylinder filled with a solution of collagen and fibroblasts — two main components that make up skin, the human body’s largest organ. Using living cells also endows robots with the biological functions of skin, such as its ability to self-repair and repel water.”
This means only one thing: Bioroid catgirls with cute hapattable skin!
The future in nyaa-igh!
Ah yes, that Communist dictatorship of Cuba, where people wait in line for hours to not starve and cracks down on any who dare show discontent. Things in Cuba are getting worse since their main clients and source of income, Russia, is preoccupied with the entire invading the Ukraine things…
Still, Cuba continues to ear millions of dollars off of their slave doctors. And just who is helping round up slave doctors who dare to escape? Unsurprisingly, it’s Venezuela.
News of the Week for June 19th, 2022
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
The centralization of power on a global level is an idea that has been around for quite some time, and is often promised to be benign, despite human nature when combined with absolute power being anything but, as William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses with Norman Cousins the idea of world federalism.
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: America needs more knife-wielding female robbers for equity!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
So many in the Federal government seem hellbent on pushing wokeness and “equity” on the world…
“The State Department will announce a Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice on June 17 in connection with the department’s Equity Action Plan, an email obtained by the Daily Caller reveals.
“The position of Special Representative was first announced by the State Department in its April Equity Action Plan. The position’s holder has not been named, but the Special Representative will have wide-reaching powers, since he or she will be responsible for ‘institutionaliz[ing] an enterprise-wide approach to integrating racial and ethnic equity.’ The email names ‘advancing equity, addressing systemic racism, and strengthening democracy worldwide’ as ‘national security imperatives and core tenets of President Biden’s foreign policy.’
“Although the Special Representative will be responsible for ‘promoting systems of inclusion that mitigate bias, discrimination, and violence’ and ‘fostering more inclusive societies,’ previous U.S. government efforts to promote inclusion and equity have failed. The federal government spent nearly $800 million promoting gender equality in Afghanistan, a project that failed due to ‘traditional gender norms,’ according to the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction.”
If there was a Satanic organization hell bend on ruling over others, who would you suspect from the evidence? The United Nations? The Trilateral Commission? The Stonecutters?
No, if you wanted prima facie proof of demonic possession, you’ll find no more obvious candidate than the European Parliament.
meanwhile, in the european parliament:
confused meps watch an elaborate interpretative dance at the end of a conference on the future of europe pic.twitter.com/5InPwQTFfK
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 10, 2022
Still too normal for you? There is always this:
Is the European Union okay? pic.twitter.com/XxcSzyfWmA
— Totnan Klar (@totnan111) May 10, 2022
Happy Flag Day!
There are many historical flags associated with the United States, particularly during the War of Independence.
One such flag, which has seen more recent official use is the “First Naval Jack”.
“According to legend the First Navy Jack Flag, which is sometimes called the Continental Navy Jack, was raised on the first US Navy ships in the fall of 1775. The Congress had just created the Navy and they appointed Commodore Esek Hopkins, a Rhode Island captain, as the first naval Commander-in-Chief. Hopkins issued a set of fleet signals. The attack signal was to be the raising of “the striped Jack and Ensign at their proper places” from his command ship, the USS Alfred.
“The exact design of the flag was not specified, but the traditional belief is that the First Navy Jack Flag consisted of 13 red and white stripes with a stretched out rattlesnake across the center. The words Don’t Tread on Me stretched across the bottom below the snake. It is likely that John Paul Jones would have raised the First Navy Jack Flag on Commodore Hopkins’ flagship since he was the ship’s first 1st Lieutenant.”
The specifics may have been a confluence of different flags and a misunderstanding.
“In 1778, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sicily, thanking him for allowing entry of revolutionary ships into Sicilian ports. The letter describes the new flag of the colonies according to the 1777 Flag Resolution, but also describes a flag of ‘South Carolina, a rattlesnake, in the middle of the thirteen stripes.’
“The rattlesnake had long been a symbol in the colonies of resistance and defiance to the Crown. The phrase “Don’t Tread on Me” may have been coined during the American Revolutionary War, a variant perhaps of an earlier image. A snake severed in segments and labelled with the names of the colonies and the legend “Join, or Die”, had first been published in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754, as a political cartoon reflecting on the Albany Congress.”
Regardless of the origin, this flag has been on multiple occasions the official naval jack of the United States Navy.
For Freedom.
Early voting has always been the bulk of the vote in Nevada, but unlike previous years, this primary has ballots automatically mailed out to everyone, with the option of voting early in person, while before Corona-chan (COVID) absentee ballots had to be requested. So, how does the 2nd week of early voting this primary compare to previous years?
Nevada est omnis divisa in partes tres
To reiterate from the previous post from the 1st week of early voting:
The state can be divided, as Caeser might say, into three parts: Clark County, which contains Las Vegas and 70% of the states population; Washoe County, which contains Reno and 20% of the states population; and the rural counties, which contain 10% of the states population.
Clark County leans Democratic and continues to do so. The rural counties are overwhelmingly Republican if not more conservative (hard right 3rd parties can be elected to partisan office in many rural counties).
This leaves Washoe as the “Bellwether” county which has usually in the past always gone with the statewide winner in every statewide contest in Nevada this century. However, Washoe, which has a slight Republican plurality or near parity, has been shifting, despite the registration numbers, more reliably to the Democrats.
2022 Numbers for the 2nd Week
Washoe early voter lead has gone from 20%, 11% and even in 2014, 2016, and 2018 respectively (as well as a near even slight Democratic lead overall in 2020), to a slight near even GOP lead of less than 1% in the 2nd week of the 2022 primary. Washoe continues to underperform compared to previous year and this is consistent with Washoe becoming more friendly to Democrats despite a nominal GOP voter registration edge.
In contrast, the 2nd week for Republicans in Clark County is better, with a deficit of nine thousand votes or about 6% lead for the Democrats. The Democrats’ lead in 2016 and 2018 in the 2nd week was 10% and 16% respectively, while in 2014 the Republicans actually had a 7% lead in a primary with disastrous turn-out for the Democrats where “None of these candidates” won the plurality of votes for the Democratic nomination for Governor.
Statewide, the GOP had a slight lead statewide of just under 1%. The total GOP turnout lead is about six thousand votes. The ratio of mail ballots returned to in person voting did increase slightly, as would be expected with ballots arriving shortly before the end of voting. Overall, the GOP is doing better than it did at this point than they did in 2018 or 2020, and perhaps comparable to 2016.
News of the Week for June 12th, 2022
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