Judge Brett Kavanaugh I think my idea for a quick and decisive solution to the ongoing debacle known as the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process is worth considering. The sad and unfortunate situation involving General Michael Flynn and his pending sentencing was the inspiration for this idea. After all, if a man who dedicated his life to serving his country can be ruined and threatened with prison by Bob Mueller, everyone should consider themselves fair game in this era of financial ruin and character assassination for political reasons, public servants and private citizens alike. In General Flynn's situation, the FBI agent who conducted the initial interview thought he was telling the truth, and he's still facing a prison sentence, conveniently postponed until after the November midterm elections. The FBI can make everybody involved or named in the Kavanaugh hearings the exact same offer -- if there's any chance the accusations or the denials can neither be proved nor corroborated, that person has the option to recant their claim without suffering criminal penalty: Make a public statement acknowledging you cannot or will not support your previous claims with corroborating evidence, and only risk public humiliation versus criminal penalty. Continue to move forward, you'd better be damned sure you're telling the truth, because now you've got skin in the game.Every allegation against Judge Kavanaugh and every denial must be given in a sworn statement taken directly under oath by the FBI. Every witness must swear to their testimony under penalty of felony perjury, … [Read more...]
The gods of atheism
Most atheists will claim they don't believe in gods, but they're wrong. They simply don't recognize their gods as being gods because they lack the traditional names like Jesus, Yahweh, or Allah. The gods of atheism (and science) are Time and Luck. Yeah, I know--not all scientists are atheists, but most atheists want to think of themselves as intellectuals and scientists, though. Consider the following paragraph found in an article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, titled "Here's what happened when scientists gave octopuses ecstasy:" They (researchers from Johns Hopkins University) noted that octopuses are separated from humans by more than 500 million years of evolution and have brains that are more similar to those of snails. However, with MDMA, they were able to exhibit some of the same actions of people. Now if you're like me a few questions might have just popped into your head, such as: how would an octopus and a human being "share" a common ancestor? The relationship between "ancestor" and "descendant" is normally defined by sexual reproduction between two members of the same species. The two "species" in question have quite a few very obvious morphological differences, and the only person who apparently ever considered the quantitative differences between two distinctly different but allegedly related species seems to have been philosopher David Berlinski. Because cows and whales allegedly share a common, land-based mammal ancestor that hypothetically lived approximately 160 million years ago and was only about the size of a modern shrew, we … [Read more...]
The liberal blood sacrament of abortion
Do they really think we're this stupid? Well, yeah. Obviously. And I always get offended when stupid people assume that we're even dumber than they are. Which is smarter, an elected Democrat politician or a CNN reporter? No matter what you guessed you were wrong, because it was a trick question...a brick is smarter than either one. This isn't about sex. It isn't about rape, attempted rape, and has absolutely nothing to do with Christine Ford's accusations. It's really about abortion. Specifically, it's about stopping Judge Kavanaugh from being seated on the Supreme Court in order to preserve this liberal blood sacrament. Senator Robert Menendez admits the real motivation in the organized opposition to Judge Kavanaugh is to protect Roe v. Wade in the clip below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=385&v=M02erKVxPVw No offense, but if you really think the desperate last-second attack on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh has anything at all to do with accusations of sexual abuse as a teenager, you're a useful idiot as far as the Democratic Party is concerned. If you are offended, get over it. Learn to use the brain God gave you, and think. Since when has a Democrat ever cared about sexual improprieties? We're talking about the political party of Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton, for God's sake! They only care when they can accuse a Republican of sexual improprieties, and the sort of deviant behavior that comes naturally to a Democrat. The Democratic Party reportedly doesn't care about (documented) very serious allegations … [Read more...]
Twitter and me
About six months ago, I deleted my Twitter account. Once I realized I had been shadow banned merely for expressing an conservative controversial opinion about abortion, I just removed my account without any fanfare. What would be the point of "tweeting" a complaint if nobody but me could read it? The beauty of a shadow ban is the victim may not realize the ban is in effect for a while and may waste time and energy writing comments that no one but them can see. It's a lot like accidentally pressing the mute button in the middle of a phone conversation and failing to realize the other person can no longer hear a word you're saying. To be perfectly honest, I'd never liked the constraint of limiting my thoughts to 140 characters or less, so I decided to just delete my Twitter account and move on with my life. The only thing about the whole situation that still bothers me is the idea of some anonymous coward monitoring and then censoring my speech, and being powerless to stop it. But what other choice do I have? There aren't any grounds for a lawsuit. Yet according to Twitter's CEO, the corporate culture at his company is so toxic that conservative employees don't feel safe to express their personal opinions at work. Dorsey claims he doesn't think that's right or fair, but he's done absolutely nothing to stop it.All he would have to do is threaten to suspend or fire any employee for discriminating against users of their service or their fellow employees for political reasons, and it would stop. With his public denial of a strong liberal bias as the dominant … [Read more...]
OBE questions for Dr. Susan Blackmore
Dear Dr. Blackmore, With great interest, I read the personal OBE account from November 1970 on your website. I must admit I was a bit surprised, given what I previously knew about your work and your book, The Meme Machine. I had no idea that you received your PhD in parapsychology. Given the nature of the questions I'm about to ask, I have some concern about the sentence in your biography stating that you no longer research paranormal phenomena. However I must ask these questions of someone, and your particular area of expertise would seem to make you the ideal person to submit my query. Your 2016 lecture at the SANDS conference in Italy would have been the perfect forum to ask my questions but unfortunately, I wasn't invited. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBDPji5p6zE I'm not going to try to convince you that your alleged OBE wasn't a drug-induced hallucination, because I've never had one myself and that seems to be the best explanation for the "experience" you described. Because I know you're very busy and have an assistant screening your emails, I'll get right to the point. My first question is this: given that you presented reasonable evidence that your OBE wasn't real, why did you call it an OBE? Why didn't you just call it a drug-induced hallucination, as it seems to have been? Have you assumed that because your "OBE" probably wasn't real, that every other alleged OBE must also be a hallucination? More importantly, what do you do with evidence that if true, would invalidate your assumption? My remaining questions are all related the specific … [Read more...]
