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Thursday March 01, 2018 · 1:53 AM PST

2018/03/01 · 01:53

If we’re not there yet, we’re close…

You’ve not lived until a mouse or rat or whatever dies in some unreachable place within your domicile and you have to just wait it out. Eventually it peaks, the smell… Washington DC is at that point, I think, where it could not stink any more, so should start lessening… We’re over the hump!

Class Action RICO suit naming Trump & the GOP?

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Friday February 23, 2018 · 8:21 PM PST

2018/02/23 · 20:21

I apologize if brighter minds have already asked and answered this, but isn’t there enough evidence for a class action lawsuit against President Trump and the GOP leadership as an ongoing criminal enterprise under the RICO Act? They have conspired with each other and committed treason. They have lied and obstructed justice. They are demonstrably an ongoing criminal enterprise, and there’s no end to the harm they continue to inflict.

Why wait for Mueller to file criminal charges?

The early Kwisatz Haderach problem...

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Monday July 24, 2017 · 10:40 PM PDT

2017/07/24 · 22:40

Imagine the GOP is the Bene Gesserit, and, as in Dune, their Kwisatz Haderach arrived early… But in our case it’s a vile Harkonnen named Trump. He stole the ‘apparatus’ they’d carefully constructed for twenty-five years, and with reckless abandon is smashing it to pieces!

Their plan had been to take complete control of the federal government and dismantle it, but it assumed they controlled the president… Good luck with that!

They see it now, but there’s nothing they can do. They thought they’d won. They had! But Trump snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!

Rejoice in this, kind souls!

The pigs were pleased

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Monday November 02, 2015 · 8:40 PM PST

2015/11/02 · 20:40

The pigs were pleased to hear that bacon finally made it onto the IARC Group 1 list of carcinogens. “It’s now on record that people who eat a lot of bacon might die a little younger than those who don’t”, said the pigs. Others predict an actual increase in per capita bacon consumption because bacon-eaters are ‘pig-headed’, and will pig-out on bacon because, bacon...

I enjoyed Liesl Schillinger’s piece in the Sunday LA Times: If bacon is so bad, I don’t want to live She says:

Exasperated by this pronouncement, I had two thoughts. The first: What will this do to Oktoberfest? The second: If bratwurst, cold cuts and red meat are as dangerous as cigarettes, there can be only one rational response — start smoking.

http://www.latimes.com/...

Prediction: The GOP will start criticizing HRC for agreeing with them

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Monday October 26, 2015 · 9:10 PM PDT

2015/10/26 · 21:10

A brand new flavor of crazy!

Noticing that the only effective attacks on HRC are Bernie’s blatherings of truth, the machine-intelligence at GOP-HQ will calculate that criticizing her for siding with them will damage her with no negative ‘blow-back’ on any of them. Being fundamentally stupid, they’ll follow their AI’s idiotic advice. For example:

They’ll start attacking her for voting for the Iraq War.

Crazy enough to work?

Yes, unless we anticipate and preempt it!

Tianjin Explosion: Only in China, right?

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Thursday August 13, 2015 · 7:36 PM PDT

2015/08/13 · 19:36

I was brushed the wrong way when I read this on a friend’s social-media feed this morning:

Cassandra: Tragedy waiting to happen. All those chemicals piled on top of each other. Maybe China's way of population control. Brutal and vicious leaders in that Communist Country. Sorry for the loss of precious and innocent lives. RIP.

I’m no Sinophile, socialist or commie, but this is how I responded:

Sweller3: Yes, they’re a bit like Texas which—through gerrymandering—also eschews representative government, and displays similar disregard for public health and safety.

“No pissant tofu-eatin’ EN-VI-RO-MENT-AL BEW-RO-CRAT tells ME how to run MY bidness!”

Two and a half years after THEIR deadly explosion you can STILL store large quantities of ammonium nitrate and anhydrous ammonia next-door to a school, nursing-home and 50-unit apartment building.

The Chinese government will at least try to make it LOOK like they’re doing something to prevent similar tragedies in the future. But with Texas, one wonders: even if the blast had happened during school hours and killed a hundred-fifty schoolchildren, whether they’d at least by now have changed a few local zoning ordinances.

“If you’re in a horror movie, you make poor decisions”

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Saturday October 18, 2014 · 8:13 AM PDT

2014/10/18 · 08:13

“It’s what you do.”

So goes the tagline of the hilarious Geico ‘horror movie’ commercial, where the blond girl cries, “Why can’t we just get in the running car?”, and the guy wheels on her saying, “What, are you CRAZY? Let’s hide behind the chainsaws...”

Well folks, we actually are in a horror movie, and we’re the blonde. The Republicans, of course, would have us hiding behind chainsaws. But all we have to do is get out the vote and step on the gas!

We'd be well and truly f*cked if the scientists lost faith in us...

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Tuesday May 13, 2014 · 8:33 PM PDT

2014/05/13 · 20:33

So you decided to start distrusting scientists... Interesting...

A few years ago we might have administered a panel of tests to ascertain your diminished mental capacity. Now we simply ask your caregiver if you watch Fox News or listen to Rush Limbaugh, and recommend a legal website for creating the power of attorney you should sign as soon as possible...

Please don’t lose faith in science, papa! Consider this: The politicians are asking you to trust them over the scientific community. Does that sound like a good idea: trusting a politician over an accredited scientist?

You used to know the answer to this!

You used to know that some politicians will say anything to get themselves elected, while research scientists have nothing to lose but their professional credibility.

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Monday May 12, 2014 · 9:43 PM PDT

2014/05/12 · 21:43

While reading yet another wing-nut’s explanation of global climate change as a conspiracy perpetrated by the world’s climate scientists, it occurred to me that this actually presents an interesting alternative to the usual lines of battle in the debate. Rather than arguing the validity of the science itself, we might instead compare the relative likelihood of the competing conspiracies.

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Friday November 15, 2013 · 1:48 AM PST

2013/11/15 · 01:48

My prior diary espousing the evolutionary inevitability of religion for a species like ours was well-received here! Only 99.93 percent of the comments were against! There WERE a couple hmmm’s... Thanks!

Dark Matter
Like God, Dark Matter was invented by overactive imaginations attached to insufficient intellects like yours, DrTerwilliker... There is no ‘missing-matter’ – it’s all here! What’s missing is humility... Maybe some of our assumptions are wrong...

Maybe some of the ‘constants’ aren’t...

Not the Olympic Torch if Unlit, Ivan...

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Thursday November 07, 2013 · 9:48 PM PST

2013/11/07 · 21:48

The news this morning had an item about the Russian Olympic Torch for the upcoming Winter Games in Sochi being carried into space: http://www.reuters.com/...

My local morning newscaster said that the “Olympic Flame” was in that rocket, and for a moment I was thinking what clever bastards them rooskies is for creating a ‘containment vessel’ capable of taking the Olympic Torch up to the space station and out for space-walk! Epic cool!

But no... The torch was unlit, the babbling boob finally revealed... Imagine my disappointment!

I’m embarrassed for and disappointed with our Russian tovarisch for not having made it happen for real.

Religion was biologically inevitable

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Friday November 01, 2013 · 12:01 AM PDT

2013/11/01 · 00:01

I have completed my analysis of what religion is and from whence it arises. It is the intellectual extrapolation of a ‘higher-power’ by our in-built dominance-hierarchy analytics. At some point our ancestors noticed that their leaders lacked omnipotence—they can’t control the weather, for example—which implies that someone or something else does.

The vacuum at the top of the dominance hierarchy is ‘God’, and the study of this space is either religion or philosophy depending on one’s starting point.

We’re all in this together, so, I suppose I should apologize in advance to those of you who thought religion was more than just a way of thinking about the world, and thanking it.

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Peak Putrefaction

Class Action RICO suit naming Trump & the GOP?

The early Kwisatz Haderach problem...

The pigs were pleased

Prediction: The GOP will start criticizing HRC for agreeing with them

Tianjin Explosion: Only in China, right?

“If you’re in a horror movie, you make poor decisions”

We'd be well and truly f*cked if the scientists lost faith in us...

Meta Conspiracy Analysis of Global Climate Change

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Not the Olympic Torch if Unlit, Ivan...

Religion was biologically inevitable