This is the day that we remember the 3,000 civilians who died in an act of unspeakable terror, made possible by gross governmental negligence and which was used to justify a complete re-orientation of our national priorities and drive us into a cultural, economic, human rights, and military quagmire.
The immense potential that the 20th century held has thus far not been realized aside from the dystopian visions of some sci-fi writers and the Cassandra-like warnings of Solzhenitsyn.
It should forever be a reminder of the importance of vigilance, and the dangers of Government overreach.
Dershowitz, who is quite emphatically not a Trump supporter, points out the very troubling overreach of of the never Trump lawfare. In going after the lawyers, the Dems are crossing a Rubicon.
No one who crosses the Left will be able to get legal representation if this stands.
Contrary to many who assume these people are stupid and can't process the conditional hypothetical of the shoe being on the other foot, they are NOT stupid. The Left understands the concept of reciprocity perfectly well. They don't expect they will face reciprocity... because they don't plan to ever be out of power....They're going for the brass ring.
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Nah, they crossed that particular case of river earlier. Yale or Harvard pulled together a letter that they got signed by something 3/4 of law school heads, on January 12th 2021, epousing the novel legal theory that rather than representing their clients, lawyers had a professional responsibility to refuse to take certain cases and represent certain clients.
Note, the timing on this might have been tight for a genuine response to January 6th.
The ABA credentials all the law schools, and the law faculty have failed to understand the extent to which public buy in to the legal system relies on the legal system's ability to persuade that it resolves disputes fairly.
The letter was a clear signal both of will to power nonsense beliefs, and to GOPe faculty eagerness to sell out voters for the sake of getting Trump out of their business.
It discredited not only the idea of settling the current insanity by electoral process, but also by the legal process. The insane ones have calculated that they have cut off our every path to remedy, except the ones that they intend to trap us with. They miscalculate this badly, as they miscalculate almost all of their behavior forecasts.
The universities have now been a venue for killing at least two professional schools, medicine and law. There is little reason to hope that they will not soon kill any remaining value left in academic training. This frees our hand.
We need merely remain firm in reiterating the following argument: Faculty have purported themselves able to curate which arguments get brought before the courts. If this is true, the precedent going back decades may no longer be binding as having not been corruptly decided, and the courts cannot purport to be acting fairly as agents of the public. In such case, there is no reason to have schools of law. If there is any purpose in law, lawyers, and schools of law, then these faculty have made an untrue statement. Therefore, they must retract the statement, and resign.
It may persuade sufficient people to correct this injustice. If they close their ears, we still have a paper trail.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thu Sep 7 22:48:09 2023 (r9O5h)
MOVIE NIGHT
I'm still having issues interfacing with the blog. However streaming is actually going reasonably well.....to that end.....
Tonight at 9:00 PM EST / 01:00am UTC join us at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet for a Super-Secret-Silent-Sci-Fi Saturday as we watch 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1916). We showed this once before...to two viewers. However, this is a fascinating film, and the first theatrical release to feature actual underwater photography. I actually have multiple movie posters and newspaper ads to show, but the blog doesn't like images right now....
So....IMAGINE if you will : SHARKS!, A GIANT OCTOPUS!, FISH!, STALWART HEROES STANDING AGAINST THEM!, AN OLD BEARDED GUY WITH A SEXTANT!
Or....join us for all the fun tonight.
Afterwards we'll be playing Disgaea: Hour of Darkness!
Midnight Movie Night on Kick!
Tonight (Sat7/8/23) at 21:00 EST/ 01:00 UTC we'll be doing another Testing and Breaking Things Stream over on Kick.com.
We'll be doing a bit of grinding in Disgaea to level up the new character and around Midnight we're going to watch some Silent movies, a silent short that is TBA and Der Golem (1920)
A German expressionistic Horror film set in the middle ages. The Golem is the last film in what was the very first Multimedia mass merchandising SciFi Horror Franchises, with Book, Radio, Film and Merchandise elements. It is also a prequel that serves as the origin story for the film series. https://kick.com/brickmuppet Come by, say "Hi!" and poke about while checking out the Beta of Kick.com!
(We actually showed this looonng ago on Twitch, but only had 2 viewers the whole night and this film really deserves to be seen. )
Then and Now
So, in what is now called Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, 247 years ago today, a group of men, some more reluctantly than others, declared the independence of their homeland from their nation.
After a declaration of principles, they listed their grievances. Those grievances are highlighted in red below the fold.
Aside from certain ones that have a contemporary ring to them ("He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...") and a few others that were products of their time, I am struck by how mundane many of these concerns seem to most of us today, yet back then were seen as sufficient infractions of liberty to inspire men to take up arms against the most powerful military in the world.
I'm further struck be the lack of anything approaching child genital mutilation amongst the grievances.
This may yet be winnable without a great deal of violence.
SEcondly, the appropriate time and place for violence would be in circumstances where every American would understand it to be justified. See Rittenhouse.
Thirdly, the path out will need a victorious coalition able to deliver peace. The type of person most necessary to bring into that coalition are the ones who would dislike stupid emotionally compromised applications of violence, that are directed against innocents.
Each of these items alone would perhaps be grounds for some thoughtful and attentive deliberation. Together, I find them strongly compelling.
Most current things seen as provocation have perhaps been going on for decades. I think the schools were pretty abusive twenty or twenty five years ago.
Covid and the rest of 2020's activities were a combination of the left unmasking thinking they had won, and them being too clever for their own good. The current level of disenchantment is downstream of their own goals, and discrediting of their tools.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sat Jul 8 21:58:13 2023 (r9O5h)
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Ian's moderation team or Ian himself deleted my comment for that video. It may be my first time. The comment itself was fairly innocuous, I think. It said: "FYI Antelope Hill sell ``The Foreigner Group'' by Carolus Lofross on their website." I didn't even post a link (which I can post here, if you're interested). But someone could not stand it. I guess I'll go ahead and cancel my Patreon subscription now.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jul 5 00:48:48 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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I think Lofross's book was the one that Patreon threatened Headstamp over when they were trying to publish it.
Thanks for the link BTW!
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Jul 5 07:37:11 2023 (ir7rl)
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Jul 7 09:41:19 2023 (k3/O4)
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OK, that was weird, I posted my comment, the page refreshed, and the video's there instead of "this video is not available."
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Jul 7 09:41:48 2023 (k3/O4)
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@ Rick C: I've heard that You Tube and Patreon have been deleting/ shadow-banning/ generally dorking with... channels that feature edgy content by the standards of hypersensitive Karens.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Jul 7 16:37:43 2023 (ir7rl)
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Whoops, I missed your reply somehow. That wouldn't surprise me. Daily they seem to go to new heights of idiocy. In a recent Louis Rossmann video talking about their latest attack on adblocking, Rossmann says Youtube will display a message on some people's screens saying they need to "allowlist" Youtube's ads...because "whitelisting" obviously is a Very Bad Word.
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Jul 14 09:14:18 2023 (BMUHC)
I was very distracted by the excitement of trying to follow that a little. (Was rooting for injuries.)
Doesn't really matter, we aren't going to be prepared to act on any Russian weaknesses until the Democrats are no longer in a position to backstab any sane American foreign policy.
Democrats are a greater potential danger to the American people than any foreign power could really manage. Even a hostile foreign disease warfare program would basically rely on Democrat collaborators for much of the real damage.
(I don't think the Russians or the PRC have much working nukes. They would need a good number of maintained warheads, maintained guidance systems, and maintained delivery systems to get past a working US defense system. The totalitarians are self sabotaging too hard to know which systems have what level of reliability given the actual maintenance. (I do find the totalitarianism in America concerning with regard to effects on missile and air defense.) If I thought the Democrat vote in the blue cities were not mostly fraud, I would be somewhat willing to write off a few cities as justice for the Democrat treason.)
If the Russians turn their backs on totalitarianism, they may be able to fix their maintenance and economic problems. Then we may really regret missing the opportunity to launch a counter force and counter Moscow first strike while those systems are this poorly maintained. Or Russia might get sane enough not to see us as their primary foe. So delaying action while we take the slow path on fixing the Democrats may or may not be the correct call.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Mon Jun 26 20:00:13 2023 (r9O5h)
KICK.COM is a new streaming network that seems to be much more friendly to individual streamers than Twitch...whose recent TOS fiasco has got a lot of streamers very nervous. Kick is currently in beta but it does have the capability to stream and seems to work fine with few bugs. These are mostly very minor streamer interface related things and not at all apparent to viewers
Well.....
My internet alter ego had a short test stream last night that worked OK. Reviewing the V.O.D. it still looked OK from the viewer end. So I'm going to do a SURPRISE full-on stream tonight at 9PM/21:00 EST /01:00 UTC over on https://kick.com/BRICKMUPPET We will be grinding in the item world of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness while chatting and spamming ALL 30 of my emotes. (Twitch currently lets me use 5)
Well...Looks Like Rudyard's About to Get Lynched!
Rudyard Lynch has a good overview of the history an RELIGIOSITY of communist thought (and far leftism in general). Unlike a lot on the right he looks closely and fairly at the genuine appeal this malign force has, why so many are persuaded by it's arguments and why it spread so fast. This is more honest and helpful than assuming they are all 2-dimensional pulp villains. (Which, to be fair is a rational, if misguided conclusion if one looks only at Communism's results). It's 50 minutes, but it is worth the time.
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I have some knee arthritis issues as well. Down to about half the cartilage I should have. I've been taking Glucosamine/Chondroitin, which has been helping, although I don't know if it will in your advanced state.
Posted by: Mauser at Wed Jun 7 22:54:00 2023 (BzEjn)
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I'm glad to see this news. I was a little afraid that I would hear of a sudden decline.
I'm very happy that you are seeing some improvements, and not just having to endure this stuff.
The reading especially sounds awful to me.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thu Jun 8 07:59:25 2023 (r9O5h)
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You are right to postpone a replacement as much as possible, even at your age. Can't go back from those.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sun Jun 11 00:10:43 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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Received a number of cortisone shots when I was younger. Found out later that one potential side effect is early onset of cataracts. Found a knee compound from Garden of Life (no, they aren't paying me) that has a lot of good stuff in it and helps me a lot. The wife recently started having knee problems so she tried taking it, and it is helping her as well.
Posted by: Frank at Thu Jun 15 02:39:31 2023 (rglbH)
Peter Zeihan has Been Saying This for Years
Now, Next Big Future, which looks at future trends is noticing that demographic collapse is a real thing...and a very bad thing to boot.
SURPRISE!
Tonight, as mentioned on stream the last few days, Brickmuppet Channel on Twitch will be having a surprise stream featuring La Pucelle: Tactics. Starting at 21:00 EST/01:00 UTC......
WE'RE GONNA PLAY IT TILL WE BEAT IT!
It might take 4 hours. It might take 24.
We're also having a sub-athon, but that is ongoing while I pursues my far away goal of 15 subscribers, so the important takeaway is that I intend to actually FINISH a game.
If we finish exceedingly early we'll chat a bit and explore some of the other games that the channel has acquired.
Come by and say "Hi!" as we grind....and grind....and grind some more in preparation for sallying forth on yet ANOTHER rematch with the final boss!
Again and again....until we vanquish this genocidal monster with mommy-issues and save the world, our friends and hope itself.
Stare in bewilderment at the late '90s Japanese take on fantasy Christianity. Marvel at the boomer trying to make sense of a PS2, Laugh at the inscrutable early 2000's Woolseyisms, Come for the scuff, stay for the cringe!
See you all there in 3 hours.
UPDATE:
It took almost 10 hours....but La Pucelle: Tactics has been vanquished. Thursday, we begin Disgaea!
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BTW, I'm still Anime blogging, if anyone is into that any more....
Posted by: Mauser at Sat May 27 23:05:04 2023 (BzEjn)
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Holy cow!!!
I will have to catch up on days off. I want to see you win!
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Sun May 28 05:59:08 2023 (sF8WE)
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I hope someone watches it eventually. The actual last series of dungeons leading to the final boss is @7:54:52. The V.O.D up until that point is just interminable grinding on the same two dungeons. It took an hour and a half because the last fight is a series of dungeon crawls with no refresh/save option and it is a maze. There are also 2 very long cutscenes...this game is very much a visual novel with heavy tactical elements.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun May 28 12:16:42 2023 (ir7rl)
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a) war zone that is an information warfare environment. b) A ways back someone joked somewhere about the Russians moving the goal posts to 'recognizing the independence of' Oblast 'republics' that had been internationally recognized as Russian Federation well before the previous invasion of Ukraine. c) we shall see.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Mon May 22 18:58:23 2023 (r9O5h)
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It also gets better. Apparently just down the road from these people is the town of Golovchino. Close enough that it appeared in one of there maps shown in the video our host posted. Allegedly there is an ammo dump a little outside of town that supposedly contains 240mm nuclear rounds. Stories about this are blowing up on Youtube. Personally I say caveat emptor on this story because I can't see Russia positioning nuclear rounds that close to a border, even in the Soviet days, much less with a hot war with Ukraine running.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Mon May 22 19:22:23 2023 (QTWPE)
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The funniest part about it, I think, was when the ukronazi terrorists drove two Humvees into a pitfall trap, barely covered with some wood planks and trash. Moreover, the dastardly Russians didn't dig it in the roadway, but alongside, and placed some kind of marker. It's the Roadrunner and Coyote school of warfare for the 21st Century.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue May 23 18:08:10 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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The 2nd funniest part, I already see pro-Ukrainian accounts saying that it was all staged and Russians dragged those Humvees into the hole. It wasn't just completely ukrodiots who cannot drive, no Sir. It was a Putin's psyop. Who do these people think they are fooling with this?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue May 23 18:11:21 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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