Month: October 2016

Read This

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Found it over at The Feral Irishman.  The blog is new to me, Taxicab Depressions.  The post is entitled “What’s On The Ballot.”  Excerpt:

* 20 trillion dollars in debt

* 120 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities

*Insurance companies withdrawing coverage or doubling premiums for millions as Obamacare collapses

*North Korea developing and testing land-based and submarine ballistic missiles

*Iran fast-tracked to nuclear weapons

*Billions of dollars and pallets of shrink-wrapped cash shipped to Iran

*Pakistan threatening India with nukes

*Venezuela collapsing under socialism

*Iranian gunboats and Russian fighter jets harassing US Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf

*Russia installing missile batteries in Syria and Eastern Europe

*China building airstrips in the South China Sea

*Police officers targeted for murder across the country

RTWT.

We are so screwed.

Embracing the Suck

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After a great deal of thought and study, I’ve come to another uncomfortable conclusion I can no longer put off:  Short of an untimely death or disabling medical event, Hillary Clinton will be our next President.

I concluded in 2012 when the Republicans nominated Mitt Romney and then the voters reelected Barack Obama that the public education system had exceeded its Progressive mission and produced a majority electorate unwilling or unable to rub two brain cells together, and the United States as we knew it was essentially finished.  It was my hope that what Aaron Clarey terms “the Decline,” what Billy Beck terms “the Endarkenment,” would at least be slowed by avoiding this outcome, but it is not to be.  Iceberg?  What iceberg?  All Ahead, Flank!

So I am free to vote “None of the Above.”  And I won’t feel the need to shower with battery acid and a Brillo pad afterwards.

Robert Heinlein wrote, “The worst thing about living in the declining era of a great civilization is knowing that you are.” Sometimes I really wish I drank alcohol.

As Professor Reynolds is fond of saying, “Something that can’t go on forever, won’t. Debts that can’t be repaid, won’t be. Promises that can’t be kept, won’t be. Plan accordingly.”  Yeah.  Our “austerity riots” are going to be spectacular.

Plan accordingly.

UPDATE, 10/14/16: Scott Adams concurs, for the same reason. And he’s been predicting a Trump landslide for months.

Make the Rubble Bounce

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I have stated from very early in the history of this blog that America’s public education system is responsible for the mess we’re in right now, and that it cannot be “reformed.”  (See the posts on the left sidebar under “Education.”)  The phrase I’ve used is “Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”

I’ve been challenged on that, asked “What do we replace it with?”  I think this guy has figured it out.  Worth your 20 minutes.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDo5YVRmCB8?rel=0&showinfo=0&vq=hd720]
Edited to add:

Here Dr. Mitra talks about what he did with the TED prize money:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtUl2CP8ak?rel=0&showinfo=0&vq=hd720]
Also worth your time.