Bullet Points:
** The Friendly Skies
** Life in twenty years – a projection.
** What will $50,000,000,000,000.00 (fifty trillion dollars) buy you?
** This is by no means my last comment on Vladimir Putin. A friend asked me what will come after Putin is gone. There is no succession plan because even the merest inkling of succession is a forbidden concept. In Russia, the vozhd, the strongman, the despot, is all-powerful and immortal, and therefore by definition could not be succeeded or replaced. Of course, some opponents speak wistfully of a palace coup, but who would dare be first above the parapet when they knew they’d almost certainly be denounced, betrayed, and killed? What comes after Putin comes after Putin, but there is no plan.
** The Appalachian word of the day.
** Claudio brought this situation to my attention: China’s authorities have placed an exit ban on a finance executive visiting from the US, according to The Wall Street Journal. Shanghai-born and Atlanta-based Chenyue Mao, a managing director at Wells Fargo who works in trade financing, has been blocked from leaving China. The Journal says Wells Fargo has suspended all travel to China following the incident. I recall at least four flights when leaving China – the Public Security Bureau (uniformed police) came on the airplane at the gate and hauled ticketed passengers off the aircraft. Eventually, once the flight was cleared of the passengers they wanted, the door would close, the flight would push back from the gate, and everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief.
** After extensive analysis using raw survey data coupled with mail-in vote totals, we concluded that mail-in voter fraud almost certainly changed the 2020 election outcome in all six crucial swing states. There is a valuable lesson to be learned from this, and we must never allow it to happen again.
Horror in Norkland and Red China (Shawn Ryan)
Yeonmi Park is an activist and author who fled to the United States after being a victim of sex trafficking. Park recounts her oppressive childhood in North Korea, starved and without electricity. She remembers how the lights of neighboring countries gave her hope for a better life. She spares no detail when explaining what a society under a ruthless dictator, mass killings, and delusional propaganda looks like.
Yeonmi takes us through her harrowing journey being smuggled out of North Korea, only to meet a new terrifying reality – the Chinese sex trafficking trade. Park speaks frankly about the realities of survival in captivity and the pain she carries with her still today. We conclude with her rescue by missionaries and her first encounter with freedom in Times Square. Yeonmi sheds light on some hard truths and warns of the signs of communism seeping into the United States.
Based on my understanding of the human slave trade, everything she says is accurate. The human misery from communism and scum in North Korea and Red China can’t be overstated.
Send in the Clowns
A Washington Post (WAPO) opinion piece made its way into my news feed as a great example of MSM imbecility. You may have seen it too. It’s the one titled, “I’m a clown. Donald Trump is not one of us.”
It appeared over the picture of a guy in a bowler hat and a red nose, and my first thoughts were: “I thought Ted Kennedy was dead,” and “Where’d he get that bowler hat?”
But no, the piece wasn’t written by the late drunken weather balloon from Massachusetts. Its author is an actual clown named Tim Cunningham, and the op-ed is one long, unfunny joke to the effect that we shouldn’t call Trump a clown, because being a clown is a noble profession, and should be taken way more seriously than a fascist like Trump.
I’ll bet that Jeff Bezos is just thrilled with his management team’s efforts to restore the Washington Post’s credibility.
I’ve got news for Mr. Cunningham. Trump is not a fascist, and clowns are mostly not funny. How unfunny are clowns? Three of the most famous clowns in the world were John Wayne Gacy, Jerry Lewis in that Holocaust movie (look it up), and that super-creepy guy who lived in a sewer and had a disturbing affinity for frightening children.
No, not Joe Biden (RIP). Although if you’ve seen any of those photos of him sniffing the hair of traumatized kids, that’s an image that will stay with you. Additionally, he performed a trick where he pulled a bowel movement out of his hat. The Pope was expecting a rabbit and was not pleased. Also, rumors that Biden once tried to make a very simple balloon-animal, and the Secret Service had to intervene because he nearly strangled himself, have not been confirmed.
I’d love to have been a fly on the wall at the WAPO editorial meeting when they came up with the idea of asking a leftist clown–of all people! – What he thinks about politics. Because who needs a Marxist Abbott and Costello when we already have the comic stylings of Crockett and the Booty in congress? (Yes, I know: that would be an excellent name for a wacky FM “Morning Zoo” DJ team. And in a sane world, that would be the most prestigious job that Jasmine and AOC could aspire to.)
Speaking of beclowning oneself, did you catch Grandma Squanto’s attempt to dunk on Trump? She tried to play the corruption card against Trump. (By the way, have you ever seen a Democrat pack of cards? All four queens are scowling gender feminists, so naturally, all four kings are suicide kings. And the Jacks can all turn into Jills, somehow. And there are still four suits, but diamonds are “corruption,” hearts are “weird sex stuff,” clubs are “sexism,” and “racism” is…. I’m not saying.) You could say that Lizzie’s attempt at a card trick blew up in her face, as if someone had rigged her peace pipe with an exploding charge, like a Dakota (Sioux) Daffy Duck. In an X post, she presented a chart listing six entities and how much they donated to the Trump library. Above the chart, she wrote, “Government should work for the people, not whichever giant company or foreign government can dump the most money into the president’s future library.” Never mind that most of the billionaires who donated in 2020 gave to the Democrats, or that Cackling Que Mala was given $2 billion to blow (phrasing) in a few months.
Just look at Lizzie’s six categories. She doesn’t even bother to try in the last one; the “Who” is “other special interests,” and the amount listed is “unknown millions.” Which is brilliant! “I accuse you of taking…some money, from…somebody.” But the other five are hilarious. See if you can spot the pattern:
Paramount/CBS News gave $16 million. Meta gave $22 million. Disney/ABC News gave $15 million. X gave $10 million. And Qatar gave $400 million (Jet). The Qatari jet was not given to Trump, but to the United States. If the gift ever does happen, the plane will serve as Air Force One and then be donated to his library. He will never have any private use of it at all. (I still don’t think that he should accept the jet, but it is not personally enriching corruption like – oh, I don’t know – [begin Kinison filter] HAVING YOUR HOOKER-BANGING ADDICT SON COLLECT BAGS OF CASH FROM THE CHI-COMS! OHH! OHHHHH! [end Kinison filter])
The remaining four examples were not bribes, but rather gifts happily given by wealthy individuals seeking to curry favor with Trump. They were ALL lawsuit settlements, grudgingly handed over to their hated nemesis by corrupt MSM power players who had slandered him so blatantly that they stood to lose many millions more if they had gone to court, where Trump would have beaten them like Cuddly Kilmar beat his wife.
If I thought Elizabeth Warren was capable of feeling shame, I might say, “Boy, is her face red!” But I’ll leave it at, “Nice forked tongue, Lizzie.
Finally, Scott Jennings continues to be the only reason ever to watch CNN, and as of Tuesday, he has run his record to 147-0 in his battles against hapless leftist panelists. The latest contender was Democrat Strategist Julie Roginsky, with an attempted assist from host Abby Phillip. The on-screen chyron defined the topic this way: “The Debate: US Inflation Rises as Trump’s Tariffs Push Up Prices.” That subject should offer Ragin’ Roginsky a chance to score at least a few minor points. I mean, sure, when Biden took Trump’s 1.5% inflation rate up to 9% in 14 months, CNN probably called that “a barely noticeable bump,” whereas an increase of .2% from May to June under Trump gets WWIII-level headlines.
So, how does Roginsky kick aside a chance for a tiny victory and grab hold of defeat with both bony hands? When Jennings suggests that the current slight increase is no reason for panic, she says, “When we were promised on August 15th last year that the price of eggs, the price of bacon, of apples—” Obviously, at this point, she was going to say, “would be down.” But once he heard “eggs,” Jennings jumped in, as one does when an opponent makes a mistake. Because of all the things she could cite, she chose the one grocery item that was hyped in the news before the election and inauguration, and that everyone knows has dropped in price.
So Jennings says, “The price of eggs is down.”
If that segment had been a fencing competition, a little buzzer would have sounded, and a ref would have announced a strike. Or a stab. Or whatever they call it when one fencer skewers the other’s thorax. (Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the fencing analogy, since I don’t know much about it.)
But Roginsky’s thorax is as numb as her skull, because she offered a meaningless rebuttal. “Year over year, eggs are up 27%.” Jennings shook his head as if he didn’t think she’d said that, and replied, “Since he took office, they’re down.”
And Roginsky insisted, “Year over year!”
Think about that. Roginsky thought that she could score a point by stating that since July 15th, egg prices have increased. But since Joe Biden was still the president for six more months, during which egg prices nearly doubled, she surely couldn’t be dumb enough to claim that Trump was responsible for the increase in egg prices when he could not influence egg prices, could she?
Please don’t call her Shirley. But you can certainly call her dumb because that IS what she was claiming. And Jennings’ response was the only sane one: since Trump took office and had the chance to influence egg prices, they’ve gone down.
This is the kind of dispute that could be solved in 5 seconds by looking up egg prices, which reporter Joe Concha did (but CNN didn’t). It turns out that the national average price of eggs (according to TradingEconomics) when Trump took office was around $6.60 per dozen. Because Biden needlessly killed 4 million chickens in his last days in office – and because dead chickens lay surprisingly few eggs, for you city slickers out there – the price climbed to a little over $8 in the first week of March. Since then, it has plunged to $2.89 this week. So Jennings was right. But Abby Phillip, noticing that Roginsky had suffered a serious thorax poke, put that weird fencing strainer thing on her face and rushed in to help her slow-witted friend.
To wit, “Let’s not fight over statistics here.” Oh good, maybe Abby knows a chicken’s hind-end from a hole in the ground— “She’s right, year over year, they’re up significantly.” Good lord!
Since a good thorax-piercing cuts off blood flow to the brain, Roginsky stepped on the same rake again, in this quote which I could not make up, no matter how much bourbon I drank:
“Let’s be clear. He promised three things: the price of eggs, bacon, and apples was going to go down. I can quote him, it was on August 15th of last year…. All of them are up. They’re up year over year, and that’s a fact.”
Whatever CNN is paying Scott Jennings, it’s not enough. And whatever they’re paying Julie Roginsky and Abby Phillip, it’s way too much.
Polonium
On this day in July 1898, Maria Skłodowska Curie and Pierre Curie announced the discovery of a new and mysterious element—polonium. Named after Skłodowska Curie’s homeland, Poland, polonium was the first element the Curies discovered in their groundbreaking investigation of radioactivity, a term they coined.
Their work began with pitchblende, a naturally radioactive ore known to contain uranium. But as the Curies meticulously measured its radiation, they realized the radioactivity far exceeded what could be explained by uranium alone. This led them to hypothesize the presence of an unknown, far more radioactive element hidden within the ore.
Through a painstaking process involving chemical separations and repeated measurements, the Curies isolated a fraction that emitted intense radiation. On July 18, 1898, they published their findings, proposing the existence of a new element—polonium. It was a moment of scientific revelation, marking the beginning of a new era in atomic research.
Polonium was found to be approximately 400 times more radioactive than uranium. Though invisible and odorless, its intense emissions could fog photographic plates and penetrate materials. The discovery of polonium was followed a few months later by radium, further cementing the Curies’ legacy as pioneers of nuclear science. Tragically, neither of them fully understood the long-term health effects of handling radioactive materials. Years of exposure would ultimately lead to Maria’s death from aplastic anemia in 1934.
Polonium is a favored assassination weapon – first for the KGB and GRU and then for the SVR.
Identify the Armor
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2
3
Not a StuG III Ausf. F – hint: The hull of the Turán was made wider and higher to create space to house the large caliber cannon, with the front armor being reinforced to a total thickness of 75 mm.
Identify the Aircraft
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Built in the 1990s, only one unit was produced. Despite setting a world altitude record for piston-engine aircraft on its final flight, the project was abandoned.
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My wife’s high school friend who now lives in a suburb of Boston was in town last week. She attempted to explain how her daughter had lost her job selling carbon offsets because of Trump. It caused me to pause and wonder just how many people have oxygen thief jobs all of their lives and never do anything productive. John Kennedy Louisiana, no relation to Ted, certainly doesn’t suffer fools well!
For the historical record, I offered to trade carbon credits for one-ounce Krugerrands here at the White Wolf Mine. Not one of you cheap bloggers bought them. I tried to save the planet but was frustrated.
Sorry to tell ya, YOU are not allowed to ‘save the planet’ because it would be from yourself…one can only require OTHERS to be forced to save the planet from humankind. Basic Lefty ill-logic.
What if I embraced paper straws?
Nope…not good enough. You need to give up the motorbike and FJ to gain a smidgen of penance.
Unlikely.
Paper straws suck. Poorly. And worse, tastes like paper.
…plus they kill trees (wasn’t that bad a decade or two ago and plastic was good?)
Paper straw in a plastic wrapper, please.
4 is Grob G-850 Strato 2C with a 185 foot wingspan. I’ve flown much more basic Grob with 50 foot wingspan. Fairly user friendly and rated for mild acrobatics.
Impressive…acrobatics in that beast.
Identify the Armor:
1. Patria AMV XP
2. BMD-1
3. 43M Zrínyi
Identify the Aircraft:
4. Grob Strato 2C
Excellent
With 50-trillion bucks, a feller could might maybe buy Congress. But, how long would Congress stay bought?
It’s like trying to buy the loyalty of a scorpion or a cobra.
I once had one of my father’s old watches with dots of radium paint around the dial. Somewhere in my travels, it disappeared, and wherever it is, the dials still glow in the dark. just like Marie Curie’s notes.
And Curie herself.
The Radium Girls, painting those same watch faces with ‘luminous paint’ while inhaling the dust and particles. No one knew.
Don’t forget licking the paintbrush to make it “sharper”.
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Unknown occupational hazards: MRI is supposed to be totally noninvasive and “safe”. We used to scan each other (to test out new imaging sequences, etc) and joke about “in 20 years we’ll learn that MRI is extremely dangerous”. I’ve had probably over a hundred scans. It’s been about 30y so far …
Hazard is of course relative. No one has taken a shot at me, nor pointed a firearm in anger even. (In stupidity a few times, yeah — and sheesh.) Then again, I didn’t work the big inner city ERs ever.
At least you didn’t get sucked and killed like that recent report…weird.
“didn’t get sucked”
No comment.
I HAVE seen an MRI machine “quench”. That’s where it catastrophically and abruptly ceases to be superconducting. There is often extensive damage to the hardware. At a minimum, you’re gonna need a refill of the liquid helium (at $20k USD on up) even if the hardware itself isn’t damaged. I heard about that guy who got killed — IIRC he was a family member who burst into the scan room (the magnet is ALWAYS on); I believe physically fighting off a staff member to gain access, and ended up throttled by a chain around his own neck or something like that. Anyway, our quench was due to someone bringing a large ferromagnetic object into the room. Thank goodness no one was injured. Over $300k damage + $50k helium, and a week of lost scan time, but no injuries.
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A friend in a famously neutral European country had a family member burst into the MRI scan room once. I think they ended up having to quench their system as a result. The man was “this idiot Italian” (those famously neutral people look down on nearly everyone, even though they are polite about it) father who had seemed cool about it, until the actual scan of his child started. (The magnet, gradients, actually, make a lot of loud and often weird noises.) Then the guy lost it, began screaming something about “Ai, diavolo!” and rushed into the room with metal stuff in his pockets, which promptly became airborne missiles. Fortunately the child was not harmed. (This story could be wholly true, or partly a product of Neutral ethnocentrism. I believe the bursting into the scan room; not sure about the “ai the devil” part….)
When I heard that story, I wondered, who wears a ferrous necklace?
As an engineer-type I won’t ever get into one, screws up one’s bio-electrics (how can it not). Then there’s the possibility I have bits of metal in my body I forgot about that’ll get extracted in some weird direct route causing bodily harm.
Friend of mine cannot get an MRI. He was a welder for a long time and the MRI operators are concerned about the tiny metal spatter that gets inside the body, especially the eyes. Kind of like Iron Man…
I was working at Fermilab when they started using superconducting magnets in the accelerator. Having them quench was quite a spectacle. The magnet case ruptured, all the windings blew out through the rupture, and a whole lotta LHe poured out. They had to ventilate the tunnels so the workers wouldn’t asphyxiate.
I’ve removed shrapnel from a patient by means of MRI before. Fortunately subcutaneous from the forearm. We ask explicitly (and redundantly because sometimes people don’t get it) about metal in the body, and about all sorts of implants or other foreign bodies. This patient either didn’t know, or truly forgot (what he told me post facto) or lied because he really wanted the scan. Anyway, no real harm done to him, but it could have been much worse. (And that damn piece of metal that came out of his arm ended up stuck inside the machine; we couldn’t remove it without bringing the magnet down. Degrades “field homogenity,” and thus image quality, too :-(
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The metal in the eyes contraindication isn’t just “an abundance of caution”. There’s at least one case report of a man who had shrapnel in his eye. Went into the MRI. The tiny piece of metal didn’t rip through/out of his eye, but it torqued to align with the magnetic field and just happened to sever the optic nerve on that side, rendering him permanently blind in that eye. That said, if a metal worker (or other person at risk of having intraocular metal) really needs an MRI then you get a series of “plain film” X-rays to look for metal. If no metal seen in the “orbits” images, then proceed with MRI. We call those films “orbits” for the orbital bones in the face around the eye.
“had to ventilate the tunnels so the workers wouldn’t asphyxiate”
I have this sudden vision of two scientists caught in the cloud of helium, stumbling breathlessly toward safety they’ll never each. The first guy gasps to the second, “We aren’t going to make it, are we, Bob?” And Bob replies, “Been good knowin’ ya, Dave.”
Tragically sad. And all this in squeaky Minnie Mouse voices.
Sorry. (Not sorry, I’m a sick bastard.)
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Hospital MRI systems are expensive not only for the “magnet” (scanner) itself, nor the helium, but the site preparation as well. Often the floor has to be reinforced because the system is really heavy (or you put them in the basement). And the suite has to be shielded from extraneous RF. Anyway, I recall when they were planning our MRI suite there was a lot of discussion about the system to vent the helium (directly outdoors) in the event of a quench.
The Kinison filter. I recommend that it be used often, and I miss that guy.
“I tried to save the planet but was frustrated.” I salute your lofty ambition. I personally do well to drag my lazy self out of bed in the morning. Even in that, I am frequently frustrated.
I still have some of my favorite Sam material on my playlist.
I like that Patria AFV. Very science-fictional looking.
– Kle.
I briefly (~4 months) helped a reconnaissance vehicle test program, comparing three different vehicles and their equipment. Was very interesting comparing the different equipment. Very science-fictional outside, and that’s what you can normally see. What you aren’t allowed to see, and what’s inside, is even more intriguing. At one point, I was purposely standing about a mile away from the test vehicles, at night, in a farm field. The vehicles were trying to find me in the field by IR/low-light. Other times I was in a SUV, many miles away by line-of-sight, day and night. Being a target was boring. I’d rather have been testing the systems inside the vehicles – just up my alley work-wise. They wouldn’t let me, so I’m no longer with the company, and now making more money inside a building, warm and dry.
For the farm field duty, I was going to have a t-shirt made that said “Don’t Lase Me Bro” for when they used the rangefinder…
Since you’re familiar with the biz, a quick search shows polonium to be an alpha emitter, and alpha particles are the easiest to stop, is that what killed Marie Curie? Does the product decay by gamma or beta and that’s what got her, or is it just the novelty of working with all that stuff before anyone really understood those nuances?
Usually, it enters the body through inhalation if it’s going to be lethal, and then it does a number on you. It also has a very short half-life – but if you’ve breathed a quantity in, you’re not going to live to see the half-life expire. That’s how the Russians used it in assassinations – as an aerosol.
It’s nuclear hemlock. We are a bit fragile amongst such things.
“Bowler hat and Red Nose: First thought…Thomas Crown Affair, final museum clownish scene. Proves these people beclown themselves without a clue they are doing it.
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Yeonmi Park – Heard her on a few programs before, seriously SISU woman who was seeing in America what she herself experienced’over there’, telling people to get a clue. Epstein is only the tip of that evil iceberg. Funny (not) how the #metoo screechers haven’t done a damn thing to demand justice for those victims….but the Lefty thought nebula is beyond twisted, never to be understood by normal thinkers.
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2020 Election- 81 million votes my rear-end. Never before, never since for that extra 18M vote spike. And always in Democrat favor. Nah, nothing to see there. Bunk….time to clear the Statehouses and most – if not all – of DC locusts, bunch of thieves and cheats, especially those waaaay past their service warranty. I thought Addison Mitchell McConnell III was exiting six months ago? The guy simply won’t go away, having held his seat since 1985 like a insisted worm infesting everything around him. At least The Magical Mr O [may] soon be pulled in for a “chat”…a full invasive proctology exam is required with that scumbag…and now the Manchurian weakling coward is hiding. Scaredy Cat.
“seeing in America what she herself experienced ’over there’”
Yeah, well. I have a friend from Venezuela who had a Cuban neighbor back home. The neighbor was an old man who’d escaped Castro’s rule. The guy was pointing out that Venezuela under “Goofy” (so nicknamed for his ugliness) Chavez was clearly evolving into something like Cuba. He was either ignored or mocked. That guy got himself to Miami (legally) eventually. My friend and her former neighbor compared notes a few times about what they’ve noticed living in Boston and Miami, respectively, and concluded that the US is on its way down exactly the same path.
Exactly…and these people know…yet…the likes of Fauxcocahontas and her same ilk in congress and statehouses don’t give a rip, and in many cases WANT America’s demise.
Mr. O would probably enjoy the proctology exam.
Ask Big Mike if you want a studied opinion.
See now, having NOT been in any military service I wasn’t thinking THAT…but thanks for the “assist” to round out the convo.
Carbon capture
Another in a long running scheme to gain total control over the population. It is for our own benefit and we should simply trust our betters.
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Election fraud
Anything involving electronics can be manipulated. Having spent many an election night as a precinct committeeman, I can attest to hand counting ballots is tedious. It should be tedious to be accurate, IMO.
I’m all for carbon credits if they’re purchased exclusively from me.
I’m sensing a theme…
What s the exchange rate between Krugerrand and carbon credit?
Carbon credits traded in the voluntary market are generally less expensive than those in compliance markets.
Clowns, yet another thing corrupted. Emmett Kelly, Bozo, Clarabell and the wonderful Red Skelton deserve a better legacy.
Larry. Have unearthed some photos, which as you suggested in yesterdays post, must be about somewhere. The ones I have feature your good self, Wofat, Tom Perdue, Cord H, Person X (also known as The Prince of Darkness), Dave Kaplan, Professor Doug Day (the author of A Law Enforcement Sourcebook of Asian Crime and Cultures: Tactics and Mindsets – highly recommended as an introduction to those with no background in Asian crime and/or cultures and as a refrsher to those that have), Mark Howell (an Assistant Attorney General for California) and Bosco, as well as one of his olvely young ladies. I shall have them scanned to a memory stick, upload them to my laptop, and e-mail them to you.
Oh no. Bosco and his ladies…that takes me back. And Tom, RIP. Tony Poshepny and the Laotians.
Thanks for the book recommendation, MikeW.
If Amazon is to be believed, a hardcover used copy is on its way to my house. (And I was trying to not buy more books/spend money this week…)
Speaking of buying used books through Amazon, I’ve been scooping up clean copies of “The Snow Lion’s Turquoise Mane” to give away as presents. Are you familiar with this story collection, and if so, opinions?
Mike_C. Thank you for finding my book recommenation helpful. Regards your enquiry. I was not aware of the story collection you mentioned (I am aware now as I had a look on the net) so, unfortunately, I unable to give any opinion. It looks very interesting though. When it arrives at your home, I think you will find Doug Dayes book interesting. Whilst Doug had an interest in things Asian he was not, unlike Larrys and my good friend Cord H, an Asian specialist, so you might find things you disagree with/take exception to. Hope you find it useful though.
Regarding Ms. Park, I’ve watched a lot of her youtube videos, and videos of Nork military defectors.
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It’s heartrending to watch them. It’s even more heartrending to see comments or critiques by people who call the ex-North Koreans liars and shills of the, what, evil capitalists? Even worse, when said ex-Norks talk at colleges, they are verbally attacked by legions of leftist students and teachers.
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I had to stop watching them. Because they met the reality of what I had heard from other sources.
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And, yes, the oh-so-nice-Chinese. Who love nothing better than to enslave the lesser people and use them however they wish.
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World’s a dark place.
The world can be a very dark place, Beans. It can also be a bright and hopeful place. I’ve never feared the darkness, and I never succumbed to embracing or accepting it. That refusal to embrace the Swamp could be said to have stopped my “progress.” I never saw things that way.
“enslave the lesser people and use them however they wish”
People? What makes you think you’re people?
You have no souls.
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Actually this is deliberate bad theology for comedic effect. Of course you have a soul. All living creatures have some sort of soul. (But lower animal souls are not eternal, they are tied to earthly existence.) Now you as a bipedal, speaking hominid do have an eternal soul, but yours is corruptible and lower. Your soul can be stained beyond redemption. Chinese souls however, are incorruptible. And therefore it’s not only permissible, but right and moral for the Chinese to use you as they wish.
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Or maybe I’m confusing the Chinese with another group. I’m not an ethnotheologian, more’s the pity.
The Chinese, being good Communists, have renounced souls. Now they’ll always be Celestials from the Middle Kingdom – even Marx can’t strip them of that.
LOL, I ‘heard’ that in Sam Kinison’s voice!!!