Via these guys (and Reader JC):
“The only honest instruction left for voters is brutal and simple: treat most polls as arguments, not measurements.”
As always, the best “polls” take place at the actual polling booths (absent Socialist trickery and lawlessness).
Roll on, November.
Reader Mike L. points me at this latest example of Panopticalism:
Baystate Health is introducing new artificial intelligence-based weapons detection systems across its hospital facilities to enhance patient and visitor safety.
The technology combines traditional hardware with AI tools to screen people as they enter the building. By detecting specific metal masses and weapon-like shapes, the system allows daily items such as pacemakers, wheelchairs, phones and wallets to pass through without setting off alarms.
The system utilizes technology similar to what is used at schools and sporting events to detect prohibited items, including firearms, knives and electronic smoking devices. To accommodate the system at Baystate Medical Center, the hospital is closing its pediatric emergency department entrance to establish a single entry point where everyone passes through the detector.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Massachusetts. (Motto: Where your pets have more rights than YOU do.)
That said, BOLO for similar fuckery in your state or city — and not just in hospitals either, because if the tech exists today, expect it to spread like the bubonic plague by tomorrow. It’s like the loathsome Flock cameras, only with added bastardy.
There’s not much certainty about life nowadays, but there is one thing that is: when Bill Clinton opens his mouth to speak, what will come out is either a lie, an obfuscation, exaggeration or misdirection.
Hours before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, former President Bill Clinton told an audience in Australia about his missed chance to kill attack mastermind Osama bin Laden, according to audio released this week.
Clinton was speaking at a business meeting in Melbourne when the topic turned to terrorism.
“I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden … He’s a very smart guy. I spent a lot of time thinking about him. And I nearly got him once,” Clinton said in the audio, which was recorded by former Liberal Party head Michael Kroger and aired by Sky News.
“I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him.
“And so I didn’t do it.”
I leave it to you to decide which of the above four characterizations apply.
Incidentally, what happened to that TV show that (I think) ABC aired about this very topic? Shown once, never been seen since.
I wonder why that is?
I guess we’ll never know.
Over among the Big Brains at American Thinker, John DiLeo has a take on the current trade blowup with Canuckistan that I hadn’t considered:
A more important fact to remember, though, is that Canada is far more dependent upon American goods than the USA is on Canadian goods. The USA is the origin of somewhere between a third and a half of Canada’s global imports. Canada cannot win a trade war with the USA. By having a trade war with us at all, Canada loses, no matter what.
So the question would seem to be, why did Carney start this?
We know where Carney is getting his advice. A longtime central banker who was not in electoral politics before being selected as Canada’s PM last year, he has hired American Democrat activists (yes, that’s USA Democrats) as key advisors, including as his chief of staff, to assist him in planning policies that will hurt President Trump and the Republican party in the midterms this fall.
That much, I’d figured out already. Then this:
In his first year and a half on the job, Carney has signed new deals with Mainland China, committing to increase Canada’s already considerable linkage with the CCP economy. He’s basically committing Canada to be a willing vassal in China’s notorious “Belt and Road Initiative.”
So the old law-and-order question comes: “Cui bono?” (who benefits) from this rather unnecessary trade war? Why would “the Canadians walk away from a trade agreement to which their negotiators had already agreed, when Prime Minister Mark Carney recalled them specifically to create a fight”?
DiLeo spells it out:
Trump Administration trade negotiations are designed not just to get more manufacturing here in the USA, but also to get more manufacturing in Canada, and more in Mexico, and more in the UK, and more in the EU.
As we watch these battles, we see that the governments of some of those countries are kicking and screaming at the prospect. Amazingly, they don’t want to protect the jobs of their own citizens; they want to leave the status quo in place, watching their own manufacturing sectors continue to be hollowed out, watching China continue to fill the vacuum.
And:
The Chinese remain what they have been for decades: a dishonest partner, practicing every trade crime from Uyghur slave labor to currency manipulation, from material dumping to intellectual property theft.
Yup. China is asshoe, and worse: they’ve become our sworn enemy, just as much as the Soviet Union was during the Cold War.
And they have more allies in the West than we do.
I think most Readers have enjoyed the occasional tottypic and pics of old movie stars that have appeared on these pages over the years.
However, these many years have also seen me in a constant battle with the legal copyright hucksters, who have hounded me over the (inadvertent) abridgement of their clients’ copyright (or so they claim — I’ve never seen any actual proof that they do indeed represent said photographers). All this despite the obvious fact that I’m not using the pics to make a buck.
As I once tried to explain to one of these cocksuckers: if I were using these “copyrighted” pics to make, say, a coffee table book — in other words, as part of a commercial venture — then I’d indeed either take the pics out or pay some kind of royalty fee.
I write novels, so I know exactly that works.
Over the years, I’ve also had various of my essays pilfered and posted in toto on some forum, blog or website — think Pussification and Let Africa Sink, among several — and my response was not to Go To The Lawyers, but just to write to the said pilferers and ask them to take it down. Some did, some didn’t.
So I know how that goes.
But in my advanced age, I’m sick of it all: the hectoring letters, the threats to take me to court, all the usual bullshit lawyers throw at you when they want to compel you to do something or stop doing something. It’s gone on for long enough, and frankly, the game is no longer worth the candle.
They’ve won.
After this weekend, there will no longer be any pics on this website unless I took them myself, or pics of guns or cars — which strangely, nobody seems to care about.
No Classic Beauties, no random totty, no links to newspaper reports of the activities of these creatures, nothing. It’s been fun, harmless fun, but now it’s over.
And the assholes at Copytrack (a German company) and Higsby and Associates (a California company) can go and fuck themselves.
From some socialist asshole:
“You better get ready for… war.”
We are. Question is: are you?
Which reminds me: it’s range time. Now, if you’ll excuse me…
Afterthought: This assumes that we’d be allowed to defend ourselves against attackers, of course.