Fake Manipulation

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/the-ultimate-fake-news.php

One of the reasons that we live in such a fractured and failed state is that "The Party" (TP-D) which consists of the MSM, the Administrative/Deep State, academia,  and of course the Democrats (but I repeat myself) can create "facts" out of nothing and convince near majorities that the fabrication is true!

And yet, two-thirds of Democrats say it is either “definitely true” (31%) or “probably true” (36%) that Russia tampered with vote tallies. Women are especially gullible; 48%, across all party lines, have fallen for this fake news. Sadly, 70% of blacks have bought it hook, line and sinker. The Northeast is the country’s most ignorant region, apparently: 47% of Northeasterners have fallen for the hoax. 

So the Democrats, by their constant hysteria and innuendo, have convinced a large majority of their followers, and 42% of all Americans, of a palpable falsehood that was fabricated in order to assure Hillary Clinton’s election and then, when that effort failed, perpetuated in an attempt to cripple President Trump’s administration.

As I've written on this before, two weeks prior to the 2016 election when it was all but certain that Hillary would win, BO himself assured us there were NO ISSUES AT ALL with any sort of "Russian Meddling", let alone modifications of vote totals.

If we had anything remotely close to even just a moderately biased media in this country, TP would be losing by double digits in all elections but those in the core inner city and richest counties. Sadly, what we have is truly the "Enemy of the People", #FAKEMEDIA!

12 Rules To Live By, An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B Peterson

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/jordan-peterson-new-york-times-hostility/

This is the first book (other than the Bible) that I've read and then just turned around and read it again. As the linked review indicates, for a practicing Christian or Jew, a lot of what Peterson covers is pretty basic, but for many modern secularists, it is a bit like Dr Strange discovering that maybe they missed a couple things on their way to their assumed total intellectual victory party.

If you are not a reader, then this video covers the high points of the book quite well. 

The message is very old and very simple -- MEANING is what is important to human life rather than "happiness", which is at best fleeting. What the meaning of your life is to be is the one great question posed by the universe(the Holy Spirit for Christians, Satan for others) to each of us (see "Man's Search for Meaning"). Once we find that meaning we have RESPONSIBILITY to be TRUE to it! 

Meaning, responsibility and truth (the wisdom triad), rather than happiness, rights and tribalism (the leftist triad). Simple, but extremely powerful for lives worth living vs lives ended in despair -- too often by their own hand.

Peterson is an engaging author and speaker, so there is really no excuse to not hear what he says. Yes, of course he has been politicized, only because EVERYTHING is part of a zero sum tribal political game in the failed "liberal" West. From a traditional rendering of knowledge however, there is nothing political about him. He is as basic as Socrates, Jesus or Buddha -- What is the good? How are we to know it? How are we to practice it? How might we live our lives? Is this all there is?

My favorite quote from the NR review linked above ... 

And so, as the secular Left pressed up against the church, it looked behind and saw the flames in its own camp. Peterson held the match, but the kindling was all around him. It’s not that men (and many women) failed to adjust to the new gender ideologies, it’s that the new gender ideologies too often fail to reckon with our deepest human longings and fail to recognize our fundamental human nature. As Peterson writes in 12 Rules, “We cannot invent our own values, because we cannot merely impose what we believe on our souls.”

What kind of a world might we live in if the small phenomenon that is Jordan Peterson grows and matures? Perhaps one where a majority finally accepts that we are not soulless automatons! Perhaps one rich with meaning and truthful relationships!

A worthy prayer!

Racial Bigotry At Harvard

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/racial-discrimination-harvard-style.phpv

Words do make a difference. Any tiny hint of "discrimination" against Blacks is immediately "racism" or "bigotry" -- incendiary words among the worst labels that can be applied to a person in the modern west -- right up there with "Nazi"!

"Racial preferences" are obviously discrimination (by definition), however when they are applied to a MINORITY group, are they not also bigotry? When a 6% minority of the US population performs via merit at a level that would otherwise make them an over 50% majority of the Harvard Freshmen, how can we use anything less than "bigotry" as a label?

Under Harvard’s current admissions regime, according to an analysis of the data by SFFA expert witness Peter Arcidiacano, a GPA-test score combination that would give an Asian-American applicant only a 25 percent chance of admission would give an otherwise identical African-American a 95 percent chance, a Latino a 77 percent chance, and a white a 36 -percent chance. Asian Americans, though, are a far larger percentage of Harvard’s admitted students (22.7 percent this year, for example) than of the college-age U.S. population (about 6 percent). This still does not preclude a finding that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans. 

They are so much stronger academically than all other racial groups that the SFFA estimates if “Harvard admitted students based only on their academic index, Asian Americans would comprise over 50 percent of the admitted class.” (The school has increased Asian-American admissions substantially since the lawsuit was filed in 2014, which the plaintiff dismisses as a litigation strategy.)

MLK had a drream for his four little children ... "I have a dream that my four little chi1dren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the conte·nt of their character"!

I imagine that dream did not include little oriental, hispanic, or even white children being ALSO judged by the color of their skin vs the content of their character!

Selfie Saves 99 Years In Prison

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/how-a-selfie-saved-a-texas-man-from-99-years-in-prison/289-614065008

In a world where "victims" are believed without any corroborating evidence, it behooves us to record where we are and what we are doing 24x7. Those who are still "believing" the Kavenaugh "accuser" either want to live in that world, or assume they can contain that world to only apply to those whose politics are not of the left.

Record yourself and keep the record FOREVER -- lest your good name be besmirched long after you are in the grave if you fail to kneel before every single thought requirement of the left!

Or perhaps the tide that nearly drowned Kavenaugh, and has certainly damaged the rest of his life beyond full repair can eventually be truned back?

Jordan Peterson and Dr Oz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscPHmLWo-M

One of the best 2+ hours I've spent in a long time ... 

Taxes and Beer

https://youtu.be/BomQxCG5VG4

The concept of "progressive" taxation, and what happens when tax rates need to be lowered is covered very well in this simple and entertainging video.

The Morning After Off Year

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/first-reads.php

My first thought at looking at the results after wakeup is, "Wow, I'm proud to be an IA resident rather than a MN resident!". The Republicans in MN pretty much took a pure shellacking, including the excreable Keith Ellison ... "Hey, my first wife beat me, so I picked women I could beat after that!"

My hope and somewhat expectation is that 2 years of Pelosi, Nadler and Waters will invigorate the remaining Trump hold-outs in the R party + demotivate some more D's, and 2020 will have a shot to be a truly historical election.

Republicans haven't had a 60 vote advantage in the Senate since FDR, and the D's held the house for 50 years after FDR. FDR is what "poltical re-alingment" looks like. Reagan was a nothing in comparison POLITICALLY -- although his contribution to keeping the echos of "Real America" alive was HUGE.

This is still BOistan, and last night proved it. After Kavenaugh, the D's ought to have lost 80% of the races by double digits, as it is, what happened in the Senate shows that there are at least a few people that still believe in the Golden Rule -- Manchin voted for Kavenaugh and prevailed, while Donnelly, McCaskill, Nelson, and Heitkamp voted against him and lost.  In America, the Ford calumny would never have seen the light of day -- at least it didn't succeed in BOistan, and was not well received by a majority of people! In case you really think anyone "cared" about Ford on the left, it is often more important what you DON'T see them talking about! (Remember Roy Moore!)

While the Civil War, TJR, and Wilson all contributed to the end of America, the long slide from FDR through LBJ and then the BO cliff dropped us into the abyss of BOistan. It is going to be a LONG slog against huge odds the whole way if we are ever going to make it back. The only way we will ever do it is with a LOT of prayer and the Grace of God, in whom we must truly trust as a nation if we wish to be blessed again!