Is beauty a gateway to the divine?

timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2020:

One of the first lessons in classical logic is that logic does not equal truth. Logic just means an argument is internally consistent. Likewise, God is beautiful, but beauty does not necessarily mean divine. It just means something is attractive. Hitler's great rallies were designed to be beautiful. Leni Reifenstal's movies were beautiful. They were far from divine. Hugh Hefner's magazines were beautiful, they led to anywhere but the divine.

Is the banning of WeChat/TicTok a modern day act of war?

timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2020:

So I can still chat with Chinese people on Baidu? It's just a matter of where the servers are and who gets to monitor/censor chats?

So ... what type of Mask Wearer are You?

timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2020:

I'll wear one inside a store if they insist. I'll wear one in a crowd. I find them to be uncomfortable after about 20 minutes.

Check this one out and tell me what you think about it. [prageru.com]

timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2020:

The thrust of the left is to apply ideology to every subject. To politicize everything as a weapon in a struggle for power.

India surpasses 2 million cases as health volunteers strike [news.yahoo.]

timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2020:

ICE raided the beef plant in my town back in the Bush years. Shut down the largest employer in town. The worst part was uncovering rampant Social Security and identity fraud.

[rebelnews.] Trudeau Liberals approve millions in pandemic relief for weed shops

timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2020:

If pot shops need relief from the stresses of COVID, why don't they just use their own product?

[rebelnews.com] Minneapolis police to residents confronted by criminals: “Do as they say”

timon_phocas comments on Aug 6, 2020:

If the police aren't allowed to do their jobs, our streets will devolve into jungle justice. Eventually Minnesotans are going to remember how they handled the James Gang in Northfield. The James Gang tried to rob their two banks. The citizens there shot the James boys to pieces. Same thing happened to the Dalton Gang in Coffeyville, Kansas. America is an armed society. Leftists had best beware of that.

OOPS Poor Joe Biden.

timon_phocas comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Intriguing that the verbal difficulty occurred when he was trying say "mental fitness." Tongue tangles happening with emotionally charged topics.

I'm sorry if I trigger you, but Canada is dead.

timon_phocas comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I disagree. Canada has a proud history. They moved west the same way the Americans did, but they avoided the numerous Indian Wars that dotted the American frontier. Justice was more even handed that on the American frontier for one thing. When treaties obligated the government to deliver goods and services, the government delivered. Not only that, but Canada never had the entrenched, immensely profitable, system of slavery the US had to wrestle with. Canada did not have the explosive growth of the US, but its economic growth was very impressive. Its contribution to Commonwealth power in the 20th century was very impressive. Canada suffers from the same problem as the US. Its history and traditions are under systematic attack. It is a good history and they are proud traditions. Canadians just need to remember them.

Does it matter that George Floyd contributed to his tragic death?

timon_phocas comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Police being racist thugs is part of the catechism of the Left. I don't believe it will convince any true believer. Just like OJ Simpson's trial, some basic axioms are beyond rational discussion. For everybody to the right of the dyed-in-the-wool Leftists, however, it's going to cause at least some doubt. On the Right, it will firm up our support of law enforcement.

Do you think it was a good look?

timon_phocas comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Pretty normal for a political party whose only sacrament is power (and maybe abortion). They did that at Senator Paul Wellstone's memorial back in 2002. It was off-putting back then, too.

Anybody?

timon_phocas comments on Aug 2, 2020:

As the world burns, I want some weenies and a really long roasting stick.

“Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is ...

timon_phocas comments on Aug 2, 2020:

All art suggests a narrative, Rockwell's works portrays them plainly. That, and the fact that the lumpen proletariat likes it, alienates it to the elite. But the supposedly simple images are complex, subtle compositions. I love to draw. What I have mastered leads me to the realization that Rockwell was a true master.

Supervised drug injection sites are proliferating across Vancouver, yet drug deaths are at an all ...

timon_phocas comments on Aug 1, 2020:

It's a racket. Drug therapy non-profits get money. Drug cartels get money. Addicts shoot up for three years and die. Crime skyrockets in the neighborhoods around supervised shooting galleries. Small businesses board up and leave. They're like urban cancer tumors

Tim Pool: Independent Journalist or Republican Shill?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Tim Pool doesn't have a great base of historical knowledge. That shows. He does have street knowledge, and that shows. He reads news streams from different perspectives and then synthesizes in his posts. Not bad.

Republican Alabama State Rep Honors KKK Founder [eji.org]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 31, 2020:

So what. A Southern Republican honors a historically significant Southern Democrat. As another significant Democratic philosopher said, "Can't we all just get along?"

[taskandpurpose.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Timely post. The Corps just lost an AAV off Southern California. Not sure if it was Pendleton or one of the exercise areas in the Channel Islands. Search is underway.

As a libertarian, I'm genuinely curious as to why so many Republicans are so quick to "back the ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 30, 2020:

I get annoyed at the police fairly frequently. Like when law enforcement is treated as a revenue stream, for instance. There are times when I'm outraged. Like when police departments act as though they are sovereign untouchables. There was a time, however, when a gang moved into my neighborhood. My cars were broken into and stereos stolen. Things were stolen from my back porch. My house was burgeled and a car stolen. It was a bad 18 months. I learned that my city of 120 thousand had the same number of police as it did in 1970 when it had 35 thousand. I complained to the mayor. I wanted more cops. I wanted more protection. And that, in microcosm, is why conservatives support the police. I can theoretically defend myself. But that is all I would be able to do. It would take all my time. I need the police so I can live in a non-Hobbesian world. We all do.

aOc ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Hey wait... AOC isn't that smart...

Fun fact: A 2014 report found that between 2005 and 2012, nearly one CBP officer was arrested for ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Over 2,500 CBP officers were arrested for misconduct? When and where?

Police identify ‘Umbrella Man’ as associate of Hell’s Angels, white supremacists

timon_phocas comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Howdy @Naomi, Let's see how this story plays out before accepting it. It seems too neat.

Today in 1932: the U.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 28, 2020:

That was MacArthur's show. The newsreels and radio reports virtually guaranteed FDR's election in 1932. BTW, the veterans were promised cash payments to be redeemed in 1948. They were demanding their cash payments 26 years early.

What's Up with Journalism? [t.co]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 26, 2020:

Forty years ago the New York Times was a liberal newspaper with decent fact checking and journalistic standards. I trusted their international reporting. They have descended into a propaganda rag. If I read them I have to analyse them like I would Pravda or Tass. So many news outlets have gone down that path. It's hard to find reliable news now.

Why do many Leftists fervently believe Trump is a reincarnation of Hitler?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 26, 2020:

The Left has been very 'liberal' about bestowing fascist accusations on their opponents. The ashes of WWII were barely cool when Harry Truman called Dewey and Republicans "front men for fascists." Eisenhower escaped this accusation. He was, after all, the leader of the armies that crushed fascism. Every other Republican president has been excoriated as a racist, fascist warmonger, and (inevitably) Hitler-like. There was a peak of vituperation with Nixon (Vietnam War and Watergate). There was another with George W. Bush (Iraq War) and today's raging creshendo with Trump.

The mainstream medias have been lying about what's been going on in Portland OR.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 26, 2020:

I am finding RedState's coverage to be most insightful.

Seattle Police Chief: The City Council took all our non-lethal weapons away as of Sunday.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Update! A Federal Judge set aside that resolution of the Seattle City Council. I guess the police are back in business?

You no longer have any legal rights. [nytimes.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 25, 2020:

The local Court House is a stately old building done in Greek revival. A temple of justice, as it were. I would be arrested and imprisoned if I attempted to burn it down or throw incindiaries at it. Why should those actions be considered a civil right in Portland?

Is it fair to call AOC a "Fucking Bitch"?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Is this a continuation of your previous question? If males are lust-driven Neanderthals, why would MS Ocasio-Cortez expect any other behavior?

What has been the long-term impact of the MeToo movement?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 23, 2020:

The #MeToo is kind of paradoxical. On one hand they utterly reject codes of gentlemanly manhood as a hopelessly outdated form of male domination. On the other hand they demand gentlemanly restraint from every man they encounter. At the bottom of this paradox is a rejection of traditional assumptions about human nature and the contradictions this inevitably brings.

Three companies studying “Orbital Outpost” space station concepts for Defense Departmentc ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Space industry is getting more important and more innovative. Something a little larger than the X-37 with similar capabilities could lift something like a KH-11 and add a lot of mobility.

You should watch this. [youtube.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Psychiatry has what it calls, "the terrible law of thirds." , One third of patients will recover One third of patients will get worse One third of patients will stay the same. What makes it terrible is those statistics stay the same for both those under psychiatric care and for those not being treated.

Some rare and welcome news from the business world.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Howdy @pbuck0145, Absolutely right. The job of Redbull employees is selling us more Redbull, not telling us we're intrinsically racist.

Which slogans, if any, would you suggest NBA players wear in the coming season?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Up your's whitey!

SpaceX Catches Both Fairing Halves For the First Time Post-Launch [interestingengineering.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Interesting. The US Air Force and Army have been experimenting with maneuvering parachutes to accurately deliver supplies to remote outposts. The article says the fairing parachutes are unguided. I wonder if this has been investigated by SpaceX?

This is Going a Lot Too Far as far as I am concerned .

timon_phocas comments on Jul 21, 2020:

County public health commissions are drunk with newfound power. Are they going to dispatch public health officers to peek into everyone's rooms? Or will they recruit voyeurs? I'd love to see that ad in the classifieds...

Hello all, got a question: If I believe marijuana with thc shouldn't be legal & to concomitantly ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Howdy @zeitgeist, We tried that with alcoholic beverages about a century ago. It was a triumph for public health. It was an utter diaster for law enforcement. Marijuana is, if anything, more dangerous for kids. Especially the modern varieties. It rewires brains and transforms bright, energetic youngsters into lethargic sluggards. It looks like society has decided this particular prohibition cost too much, however. Not to mention it's a cheap and very profitable crop.

First 'Non-Cuttable' Material in the World: Proteus Could Upgrade Bike Locks, Armor ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Gosh, is that what armors Nancy Pelosi's skull so no logic will penetrate?

The real worse year ever [youtu.be]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Not only that, but the Raiders took the Superbowl that year...

Protestantism’s troubling history with white supremacy in the US [theconversation.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 19, 2020:

The Southern Baptists split from the American Baptists in 1840 over slavery. Joseph Smith was racist and so the Mormans carried that forward into 1970s. But those are the only things I remember that were truly racist from a denomination. The writer paints an overly broad brush when he accuses all of American Protestantism. Many denominations were Abolitionists. Many were very liberal. The writer also conflates cultural assumptions and biases with religious affiliation. People acting on their biases would not be following the teachings of their denominations. And certainly not the teaching from the Bible.

How can you call yourself a nationalist when you use the world wide web?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Howdy @WilyRickWiles, You seem to be conflating prohibiting international communications with policies conducive to national wealth and stability.

[facebook.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Hope they take 'em to the cleaners

So, if I'm white, I'm automatically a white racist.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 18, 2020:

And you thought it was hard to succeed. Look at that, we're already supreme at something. We're so supreme we're supremacists. Without even trying.

Why are businesses falling over themselves to support the Marxist BLM and embracing speech codes as ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Howdy @Altablue Look at sports franchise owners. The majority of their players are Black. The players are educated in American universities, which means they've been indoctrinated in the same ideology as BLM. The owners depend on the goodwill of city politicians, who are leftists. The owners also depend on sports media like ESPN; again, hard leftists. So they go with the flow.

What’s the difference? I’ll wait.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 18, 2020:

The answer is that business owners have free agency to make decisions about how to run their businesses. Wear masks or not. Make an artistic confection about a same-sex marriage or not. It's their choice.

Is "whiteness" required for a healthy modern society?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Those definitions of "whiteness" weren't defined by whites. You can see them on Egyptian tombs, you can read them in cuneiform, or in the teachings of Confucius. They are basic, universal values taught across human civilization.

Atlanta Mayor Bottoms Blames City’s Violent Surge On Guns, Open Carry [dailycaller.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 17, 2020:

Wow. Weren't all those guns out on the street last year and the year before? Didn't crime actually go down during the Great Depression and even the Great Recession? Does the COVID virus rewire the central nervous system to make people shoot each other? In that case, the only thing that changed was how the city and county used their police forces.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Being Treated For Liver Cancer [nypost.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 17, 2020:

Liver cancer is pretty aggressive.

Hello my conservative friends.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Howdy @CvBannister, That's my opinion, too. I'm afraid of the vote by mail. It converted Colorado from a balance between the parties to a deep blue state. Sophisticated targeted social media advertising paired with vote harvesting sway elections to the Dems.

The Hagia Sophia & Islamist Deception) [youtu.be]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 15, 2020:

It was one of the most important churches in the world for 900 years. Its conquest was the greatest triumph of the Ottomon caliphate. As an Islamist, Erdogon will never allow this monument to Muslim conquest to be anything other a mosque.

Bari Weiss leaving NY Times Op Ed Ms.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Wow. You transform liberal journalism into a howling attack mob and now you're uncomfortable there. Excuse me if my sympathy is muted.

When you live by the sword....But you are a libtard... [youtu.be]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 13, 2020:

Just for grins and giggles, "Willamette" is pronounced wool-AM-it in Oregon.

A long time agon, about four years, I was discussing my belief in God with this one guy who claimed ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 12, 2020:

King David is not only the stripling who killed a giant with a sling and a rock. He's also the king who had a faithful captain murdered to cover up his own adultery with the captain's wife. So yes, God does forgive murderers who accept their guilt, change their behavior and trust in Him.

The intellectual dark web... [youtu.be]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 12, 2020:

This quality of discourse is why I joined the IDW. Thank you.

When is inequality just and fair?

timon_phocas comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Back when I went to college I was a friendly acquaintance to Anthony Davis, at that time USC's tailback superstar. We were both five foot ten. That's where the similarities ended. He had muscles everywhere and he did awesome things with them. Anybody who has multiple four-touchdown games against Notre Dame does awesome things. Heck, there are whole football programs that don't have that. We were not equal. For good reason. I was a mediocre swimmer, he was a stellar football player. Anthony Davis went on to the CFL and then NFL. Today he's a successful businessman in Southern California. My swimming was really useful in Recon work in the Corps. Different strengths led to different ends. Not equal but equally satisfying.

I want to put my mask on, then take off all of the rest of my clothes and go outside as a protest.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Well, if I did that infertility would rise by 25% ...

I'm all for term limits.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Term limits were voted into law in Colorado in 1990. It hasn't helped. A former state representative says it stripped the legislature of its institutional memory. Legislators used to stay long enough to learn about state bureaucracies and in doing so learned to control them. Now the bureaucracies have no masters and follow their own priorities. In California, term limits moved Willie Brown from Speaker of the House for-life to San Francisco mayor-for-life. Same machine, different position. It's the machine that counts, and the machine lives on regardless.

So this is circulating

timon_phocas comments on Jul 10, 2020:

Gosh, I didn't know Tucker was Jewish...

Hmm.. . Flat spending for NASA bill proposed [spacenews.]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 9, 2020:

A few observations. The US House of Representatives is controlled by Nancy Pelosi, a fervent "Orange Man Bad" proponent. If Trump wants more space exploration, then she's vociferously against it. It could also reflect anger at the agonizingly slow progress of NASA's SLS project. It took about $40 billion and 8 years to land on the moon. The SLS has taken $30 billion and 15 years and has yet to launch a single rocket. It's a risk averse welfare program for Boeing. I don't like "Orange Man Bad," but (as far as the SLS goes) "Orange Rocket Bad" is starting to sound pretty good.

From comments by Michael Holding recently.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 8, 2020:

I don't care whether my Lord is black, brown, yellow or red. He is the Son of God. it matters who he is, not what what color he is.

Get this, in the 1800's it was the democrats that fought the republicans from keeping the slaves ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 8, 2020:

It's the embarrassing truth everyone ignores.

My friend and I were talking about this last night, and wanted to get y'all's opinion: as much as I ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 8, 2020:

I do not think the hard-left driving the Democrats want peace. They believe demonstrations, even riots, are as valid a part of democracy as elections or legislatures. More valid, really. Like the Jacobins or Mao's Red Guards, they want a tumult that will demoralize opposition. I think that's what Obama meant by "transformation", Biden promises transformation as well.

VDH writes chilling article on Year Zero [nationalreview.com] the start of a revolution.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 8, 2020:

I am in agreement with VDH's division into thirds. ...Are there now three Americas? One of white guilt and penance, one of black anger and victimization, and another seething in silence as they see their 244 years of history written off as something worse than the pasts of Somalia, Peru, Iran, or Serbia... Remember, however, that as the French revolutionaries became more and more radical they roused more and more counterrevolutionaries. In America that includes over half of the people.

[facebook.com] A LOT of Very Powerful People Are Sweating Tonight...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 8, 2020:

I don't know. Epstein was supposedly in one of the most secure prisons in the US, under 24-7 surveillance and guarded to boot. Will MS Maxwell be just as well protected as Epstein was?

So, now that the Wuhan flu's much ballyhooed second wave is slowly beginning to ebb (slowly, a ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Howdy @MaskedRiderChris, Whoa there, you might end up on AOC's right-wing conspiracy theorist lists. But you're right, it would fit the pattern. Holy moly, now I'm on a list...

Ofek 16: Israel launches new spy satellite [aljazeera.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Most countries launch satellites to the east to take advantage of the Earth's spin. That however, would drop boosters on Syria, Jordan, Iraq or Iran. So Israel launches to the west, over the Mediterranean.

If you are proud to be white (no hate here) then follow the True Nordic Religion.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 6, 2020:

Desert God he may be, but I can only confess him like the most famous doubter in history, "my Lord and my God." And if that makes me traitor, then all I can say is, "let's drink more treason!"

(liberals, democrats, leftists ) will NEVER read or watch anything that doesn’t perpetuate the ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 3, 2020:

Howdy @David42, Martin Luther is said that if he knew the Apocalypse (the end of history) would happen within a year, he would still plant an apple tree this week.

Adam Schiff Says ‘We May All Be Moving To Canada Soon’

timon_phocas comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Judging by his actions Adam Schiff already lives on another planet. How much further away does he need to get? And don't our neighbors to the north have enough crazies of their own?

New laws proposed for South Africa – including rules around the messages you can send ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Howdy @JennaGardner, Thank you for posting these. We don't get much news about South Africa in the US unless it's spectacular, mostly spectacularly bad.

Federalist: The NYT and intelligence leaks.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Even if Russia WAS paying Taliban groups to kill US soldiers, what exactly could we do about it? Park the Goodyear Blimp over the Russian embassy with a running light display that says, "Shame On You!"? In December of 1979 the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. The US began organizing, training, equipping Afghan guerilla groups to fight Soviet forces. We were paying Afghans to kill Russians, and we did it for 9 years. The mujihadeen killed over 14 thousand Soviet troops. Don't you think the Russians remember that? Why was it OK for us to pay Afghans to kill Russians and heinous for Russians to pay Afghans to kill Americans? Seventeen US soldiers died in Afghanistan in 2019. Nine US soldiers have died so far this year. The fighting season isn't over yet, but these don't even add up to a single weekend in Chicago. And if the Russians are paying bounties for US deaths, they're not getting much for their money.

"After Robert The Bruce's Statue Was Vandalized By BLM, The National Trust For Scotland Apologized ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Ahistorical twaddle, and the National Trust backs down.

One important lesson learned over the past 4 years is that city police are simply paid goons in the ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 1, 2020:

They only get upset with radical lawbreakers when they are personally threatened. Just like the couple in the gated St Louis community. He is a criminal defense trial lawyer. Very liberal, supports leftist causes. But when it's his house, he gets out front with an AR-15.

"Investigation: Two military helicopters roared over demonstrators in Washington protesting after ...

timon_phocas comments on Jul 1, 2020:

OMG, helicopters hovering over Marxist revolutionary snowflakes in the streets. Oh, the humanity! They might have gotten dust in their eyes while looting! Such a tragedy.

The SJW Commies are attacking Dr Peterson again.

timon_phocas comments on Jul 1, 2020:

OK, so Jordan Peterson has a cursory reading of history and sloppy conclusions about it. History is not his claim to fame.

Right on Cue! Thanks Joe, couldn't find a sauna big enough for the rally?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 30, 2020:

Because phone booths disappeared since cell phones became common. .

Why do White people like climbing mountains?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 30, 2020:

Ask Tenzing Norgay if it's a "white thing"

Eighty companies pull FakeBook advertising. Has Zucker been Suckered? [globalnews.ca]

timon_phocas comments on Jun 28, 2020:

It sounds like advertisers are demanding more rigorous censorship by social media giants.

[foxnews.

timon_phocas comments on Jun 28, 2020:

The manufactured issue about the GRU posting bounties on US troops is inane. There are no public actions that can be taken in response. Even Trump won't publicly announce it If he sends teams to snuff offending GRU agents. That slso gets touchy when the GRU retaliates. Cyber attacks? Blanking Russian satellites? Drop Putin from Trump's Christmas card list?

I'm still a very new member,and haven't been able to tear into Slug like I normally do,something I'm...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 28, 2020:

Howdy @Barefoot1, Welcome to the conversation. Come on in, the water's fine.

So, there's gonna be a new Robocop. Any predictions how this will turn out?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 28, 2020:

Can you sue it? Will it participate in blue flu work slowdowns? Can it be bribed? "Hey officer, I got some top of the line synthetic lubricants you might be interested in..."

White Privilege, what about Jew Privilege?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 26, 2020:

The wall Israel errected to separate Palestinians from Israelis in 2002 already extends around the settlements they want to formally annex. They are already connected to Israel by utilities, transportation and telecom nets. The annexation is already de facto, just not de jure. And it's been that way for decades. This is not a change in actual conditions.

Another Facebook Insider Details Political Censorship; Current HR Exec 'No One Has White Man’s ...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 26, 2020:

The best investigative reporting in the US. God bless them.

Rioters In California Tear Down Statue Of Ulysses S.

timon_phocas comments on Jun 20, 2020:

For leftists who know some history it's just as important to destroy evidence that the US waged war to end slavery as it is to destroy monuments to slave owners. For the rest of the leftists, it's just an atavistic rage against history and culture. The rage of barbarians.

Gaza Islamic Scholar Ahmad Khadoura: Virgins Of Paradise Will Have No Menstruation, Saliva, Mucus, ...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 19, 2020:

Great, an afterlife equal to High Hefner's mortal life.

More on the India-China dispute. [indianpunchline.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jun 18, 2020:

Thank you. Very informative.

What is your mental image when you hear the term "Transwoman"?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 18, 2020:

Trans women make me think of mental illness. You can pretend you are another sex. You can dress like another sex. You can flood your body with hormones of the opposite sex. You can even have surgery to alter secondary sexual characteristics. Do all these things and every hair, every nail clipping, every flake of dandruff will still proclaim your genetic gender. The body's genetic gender is imprinted into every cell with a nucleus. It's wired into brain structure. It's a controlling factor in the endocrine system. It controls development of the musculoskeletal systems. You can alter some of this complex, suble physiology by flooding the body with estrogen, but the body will reassert its genetic gender whenever the flood stops.

What is your mental image when you hear the term "Transwoman"?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 18, 2020:

Trans women make me think of mental illness. You can pretend you are another sex. You can dress like another sex. You can flood your body with hormones of the opposite sex. You can even have surgery to alter secondary sexual characteristics. Do all these things and every hair, every nail clipping, every flake of dandruff will still proclaim your genetic gender. The body's genetic gender is imprinted into every cell with a nucleus. It's wired into brain structure. It's a controlling factor in the endocrine system. It controls development of the musculoskeletal systems. You can alter some of this complex, suble physiology by flooding the body with estrogen, but the body will reassert its genetic gender whenever the food stops.

NASA’s next giant leaps [spacenews.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jun 17, 2020:

"History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes." Mark Twain said that a long time ago and it seems to be playing out in the space race. I'm reading "Pacific Air," which is about the Pacific naval air war in WWII. It starts out with a story about a scrappy start up (Grumman) beating Boeing for a contract for a naval fighter in the early 1930s. Gosh, doesn't that sound familiar?

San Antonio Spurs head coach says the US flag is "irrelevant" and people who are supporters of the ...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 16, 2020:

From the time of Circus Maximus to twenry-first century America, games have been a mix of athleticism and patriotism. They were always a reaffirmation of audience and culture. The NFL suffered significant losses when they allowed the protest culture to invade their programs. They recovered their audience when protests went away. Now the sports leagues are enthusiastically endorsing the protest culture. Losses will follow. Maybe athletic contracts should renegotiated to reflect audience share. When athletic entertainers realize radical outbursts hurt them financially, perhaps they'll restrain themselves. As Michael Jordan famously said, "White people buy shoes, too."

What would you do, if anything, to change the criminal justice system?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 15, 2020:

Police and prosecutor's seem to be more interested in scalps than justice. My son was arrested as suspect. It was an out of the blue event for my son, he was on his way to a medical appointment. The arresting officer was a contract with Teller County Sheriff's Department. He had a background with other agencies that included many sketchy arrests and tampered evidence. By the time it came to court the arresting officer was gone. Fortunately my son married an attorney and Teller County Sheriff's Department was not prepared for her vigorous defense. The fact that he was a medically retired combat veteran, in nursing school, and innocent to boot made for bad optics. They dropped the case.

What do you think will be the result of last week's mass apologies and genuflecting to Black Lives ...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 15, 2020:

Conservatives and mainstream people will be offended and walk away. Leftists and liberals will use these people like toilet paper and flush them at the first opportunity.

If all fails Blame the NAZI. LOL So predictable [youtu.be]

timon_phocas comments on Jun 15, 2020:

Laxitive poisoning by Nazis? Far more likely they're having a rash of diarrhea because nobody is washing when they're preparing food. Add in no toilet discipline and you have a recipe for mass diarrhea.

The Holy See is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world.

timon_phocas comments on Jun 15, 2020:

A lot of weird, convoluted history behind the papacy. One of the odd little quirks is the smallest country in the world, the Knights of Malta, whose sovereign territory consists of one house in Rome.

Personal Observation: The Problem with Re-Writing or Even Erasing History is, It Doesn’t Mean It ...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 14, 2020:

There are billions of books they'll never be able to set their matches to. Once the Jacobins are finished purging each other the pendulum can start swinging the other way.

FT: China's mix of pride and paranoia. [ft.com]

timon_phocas comments on Jun 14, 2020:

What is China up to? From Hong Kong to Taiwan and from the South China Sea to the Indian border, the Chinese government, led by President Xi Jinping, is pursuing more aggressive policies. There is growing concern about Beijing’s behaviour, not just in Washington but in Delhi, London, Tokyo and Canberra. The Chinese government may feel that coronavirus makes this a good time to act, while the world is looking away. The turmoil on the streets of America has further divided and distracted the west. But democracies cannot afford to lose focus on east Asia. A new global crisis could easily break out there, with even graver long-term consequences than the pandemic. Beijing’s growing assertiveness reflects both pride and paranoia. After 40 years of rapid economic growth, China is now — by some measures — the world’s largest economy. Its navy has more warships and submarines than that of the US. Its internet bubbles with nationalistic chatter about the inexorable rise of the nation. The biggest grossing film in Chinese history is Wolf Warrior 2 — a Rambo-style action movie, released in 2017, that features heroic Chinese soldiers battling against mercenaries, led by a racist American. A promotional poster for the film featured the slogan, “Anyone who insults China — no matter how remote — must be exterminated”. When Chinese diplomats respond to criticism of Beijing with threats and insults, they are often said to be practising “wolf-warrior diplomacy." But, alongside the pride, there are plenty of reasons for paranoia at the top levels of government in Beijing. The past 12 months have presented Mr Xi with an unprecedented range of threats and challenges. The pandemic has seen China widely accused of responsibility for a global calamity. A regime that used to believe it needed 8 per cent growth a year to maintain social stability now has to deal with a deep economic contraction — compounded by a trade war with the US. Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have continued for more than a year and represent a severe challenge to Communist party authority. And in January, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, won a crushing re-election victory — a humiliation for Beijing, which had worked hard to undermine her. All of this seems to be creating a siege mentality in government. In response, Beijing has intensified its appeal to nationalism. The propaganda goal is to rally the people against external threats and deflect anger about Covid-19 outwards, to the world beyond China Beijing’s external and internal policies are increasingly bold and aggressive. A new national security law is to be imposed on Hong Kong, which threatens to inflict mainland-style censorship on a free city. Military exercises and rhetoric aimed at...

IS IT TIME TO THINK THE UNTHINKABLE?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 14, 2020:

Jefferson's ideal of a yeomen's republic is entrancing, but it would also be bankrupt. So would our country without the coastal corridors. I think large swathes of leftist territory may be having a "Giuliani Moment." They've not only read about the results of leftist policies, they've seen them up close and personal. We'll see.

There is a television series on the History Channel (actually “H2”, a subsidiary) called Roman ...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 14, 2020:

I would also add that the Greek/Roman pantheon offered little to ordinary people. At best it was a business arrangement, quid pro quo. It can also be described as continually paying off a spiritual mafia. A personal relationship with a God who loved you, who sent his son to die for you, that was unthinkable in Greek/Roman spiritual worldview.

Police Arrest Chinese Military Officer at Airport Allegedly Stealing U.

timon_phocas comments on Jun 14, 2020:

This was stupid on the part of the Chinese. Major Wang was at UC San Francisco learning laboratory techniques. They could have gotten that information from internet searches. Yet they expose personnel to lengthly imprisonment. Curious.

In an era of inclusively, is it time for the Pride parade to ALSO celebrate heterosexuality?

timon_phocas comments on Jun 13, 2020:

On one hand, the LGBT Pride campaigns never had inclusivity as a goal. Their purpose was to deny that there was such a thing as "normal." To use Kurt Schlichter's term, they will never include "normals" in their movement. OTOH, I think the libertarian streak in the Conservative movement has great appeal to to anyone who wants what they do between their sheets to be a matter of indifference to the wider society.

HOLY CRAP!!! This article is LONG!!! The CCP Virus (COVID-19) The information in it is ...

timon_phocas comments on Jun 13, 2020:

Nice information. Thank you