Case In Point

In my previous post, I mentioned how inept artificial "intelligence" really is.  Just now, I encountered yet an even more unbelievable example of it.  

I wanted to find out more about this picture, which was a split-second snippet segment of a series of photos about ostensible dead bodies of concentration camp inmates suffocated in trains at the very end of the war.  But notice that these 2 bodies are ANYthing but those of concentration camp victims!

So I entered the image into a google search, hoping to find out what it was REALLY about.  This is what google unearthed for me {snort}.

Wouldn't Work With a Classic INTJ

Because they don't show any emotions in their eyes or face (I'm an unfortunate anomaly in that dept.:  I can never hide ANYthing I'm feeling, bec. at the very least, my eyes always betray me).

This article talks about things like signalling glasses for people with Asperger’s syndrome, and computers which can register "affect" in human facial expressions.  (But could the computer ever feel compassion in the face [no pun intended] of human sadness or misery?)

There's no way a computer can ever be programmed to genuinely have feelings.  They can't even properly translate texts from one language to another (even something as non-emotional or metaphorical as craft instructions!).

I love computers, but I don't view them as potential miracle workers.

Again Proves The Concept Is Shot

Gun control.  (Click on those words for article.)

All For Love's Sake

Listen to it here while you follow these lyrics:

1. Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love's sake becamest poor;
Thrones for a manger didst surrender,
Sapphire-paved courts for stable floor.
Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love's sake becomes poor.

2. Thou who art God beyond all praising,
All for love's sake becamest man;
Stooping so low, but sinners raising
Heavenwards by thine eternal plan.
Thou who art God beyond all praising,
All for love's sake becamest man.


3. Thou who art love beyond all telling,
Saviour and King, we worship thee.
Emmanuel, within us dwelling,
Make us what thou wouldst have us be.
Thou who art love beyond all telling,
Saviour and King, we worship thee.

Root of Shoah Dwells In Everybody

Freud wrote of the "beast within," Conrad of the "heart of darkness." Suppose for a moment that the blackness in man's heart is like cancer cells: a person can have 10 such cells or a million---either way, one still has the cancer, right?

So all hearts have a measure of this cancer, and consistent with the nature of the disease, the cells at all times have the potential for multiplying furiously, causing such noxious outbursts as fornication, adultery, perversions, divorce, alchoholism, fraud, robbery, torture, pedophilia, rape, persecution, murder and war.

Where the cancer cells are not yet as numerous, one finds "merely" selfishness, quarreling, cheating, lusting, deceifulness, gossip, malice, and other such "minor" infractions. But notice how the "minors" are seed versions of the "majors"! Unbridled, deceitfulness and cheating grow into fraud and theft; lusting into fornication, adultery, or pedophilia; gossip into persecution; malice into torture or murder; quarreling into divorce or war, and so forth.

What treatment for this disease? A very distinct form of radiation therapy: massive doses of light, perhaps? And a heart transplant. The human soul needs a complete dialysis to cleanse it of the old impurities.

One Huge Canard

It's the secularists' favorite cant:  "Religion has caused the most wars in history!"  Sorry, it ain't so.

Most Fascinating Archaeological Find Thus Far!

Clone Him Millions of Times!

And put him in the White House!

A wise, balanced, articulate realist, Ben Sasse tells it like it is.

"[N]o war is winnable when you pretend that you are not even in one...All adults know that the next attack is coming. You don’t need to see the classified briefings some of us see to know that the future is dangerous. The San Bernardino fourteen will not be the last Americans to bleed and die — in our homeland — because we are a free society."

Read his whole speech here (about a 5 min. read) or listen to it here (17+ min.).

If Cruz or Rand is not on the Pub ticket next year, I'll be writing this dynamo in.

An Old Insight Repackaged

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.”  

When Einstein said that, perhaps this was floating around in the back of his mind:  Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.  (Eccl. 12:12)

   

This Gives Me Comfort! ;)

Since I am guilty of this myself, LOL!

Ladder vs. Rocket

Bray Away!

You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Straining gnats and swallowing camels...

Shortage of Latter Would Be Boon

Perspective Is The MotherLode

Bed Of Procrustes Kills

Einstein was no good in school; I imagine his teachers put him down a lot.  He had this to say about that kind of treatment:

Quacks Me Up

There's Not Any Sort Of Pattern, Right?

"Touch Not My Anointed Ones" (Barry's, that is.)

Liberalism Is Illogical #296

Coincidence?

Absolutely GOBSMACKED

As far as I know, it's a felony to threaten any sort of shooting or bombing (especially in a place where there are many people, for crying out loud!).  Yet Jabari Dean got off scottfree????

Oh, that's right, how could I forget?

















It's called Black privilege....

PS to Previous Post

"Security concerns at the clinic were high enough that the clinic had a 'security room' with a supply of bulletproof vests, but, according to an officer on the scanner, some of the vests were still in the room, and one may have been worn by the gunman."  The irony is delicious.  (The black mirror-irony, of course, is that the babies slaughtered in those facilities lack any protection whatsoever in the face of being scalded, stabbed or otherwise savaged to death.)

Said Vicki Cowart, president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains,"We share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country."  Of course she doesn't mean the poisonous environment, or the 42 year long state-sanctioned domestic terrorism that produces this sort of atrocity:

I Don't Buy It #345

So this Robert Lewis Dear guy who ostensibly went on a shooting rampage at a Colorado Springs Planned Barrenhood Parenthood slaughterhouse "medical" center, his case just reeks of the same weirdness that we've seen before. First of all, look at his picture:

See anything familiar?  Yup, that insane look that also marked the eyes/face of the Aurora shooter, James Holmes & Sandy Hook "gunman" Adam Lanza.  One is reminded of "Methinks she protesteth too much." Methinks, they exaggerate beyond credibility.  Each time, they imprint the same crazed look into the subconscious of the viewers/readers.  IOW, "Look at this guy!  This is the type of person who opposes Planned Parenthood!" IOW, "Gads, we wouldn't want to be identified with this guy by opposing P.P.!"  Subliminally, the message sent is, "You'd better slink back under your rock with your anti-PP sentiments!"

Too much of a coincidence as well is that his disheveledness and beard strongly resemble the Unabomber, and to boot, " 'He lived in a cabin without running water or electricity when he was in North Carolina,' his neighbor told the New York Daily News."  Factor in the sardonic last name, and the incongruous "Robert Louis," and it looks more and more like some sort of parody script by a not very original, twisted mind.  Is this guy really an independent actor?  Or is he more likely a Monarch robot?  Or a special gov't. agent? 

Nor should we discount this juicy tidbit:  "authorities describing how they had driven a BearCat armored vehicle into the Planned Parenthood building, smashing through two sets of doors into the lobby and rescuing some of those inside."  Why is this important?  Because it again points to an operation designed to get the masses more and more accustomed to military-style police tactics, which in the long run equates to little if any citizen opposition to martial law up the road.

But what finally cements my suspicions?  Our dear Maobama's predictable litany:  the US needs "to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them'."

Exceedingly Tantalizing!

I stumbled on this an hour ago, and have in vain scoured the internet to find where a body can order the WHOLE, finished film.  The many snippets of video clips, as well as the blog, serve as powerful bait to want to KNOW the entire story.

Based on the many clues left by the daughter, my hunch is that the woman might've been forced into being a handmaiden to Mengele, or into sex slavery (cf. Elie Wiesel's NIGHT).  

I reckon there're HUNDREDS of untold stories like this hidden away in the hearts of people like Agnes.  It's a huge loss that they remain there.

Double Standards Abound

Plants In More Ways Than 1

Goose----Gander

"The only way to doubt Christianity rightly and fairly, is to discern the alternate belief under each of your doubts and then to ask yourself what reasons you have for believing it." 

"If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs--you will discover that your doubts are not so solid as they first appeared." 

"Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as superior and more enlightened than the beliefs of most major religions."

"Skeptics believe that any exclusive claims to a superior knowledge of spiritual reality cannot be true. But this objection is itself a religious belief. It assumes God is unknowable, or that God is loving but not wrathful, or that God is an impersonal force rather than a person who speaks in Scripture. All of these are unprovable faith assumptions."  (Tim Keller)

"Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would have been quite different. But the same goes for the pluralist. . . . If the pluralist had been born in Morocco, he probably wouldn’t be a pluralist. Does it follow that . . . his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?'"  (Alvin Platenga)

1-Size-Fits-All Diagnosis

Don't Destroy What Took Millennia To Create

"Today we generally eschew cannibalism, slavery, polygamy, and wars of conquest, because of a millennial process of social evolution, the gradual universalization of certain moral beliefs that entered human experience in the form, not of natural intuitions, but of historical events. We have come to find a great many practices abhorrent, and a great many others commendable, not because the former transparently offend against our nature, while the latter clearly correspond to it, but because at various moments in human history, we found ourselves addressed by uncanny voices that seemed to emanate from outside the totality of the perceptible natural order and its material economies." (David Bentley Hart)

"Once you wait out the residual cultural momentum of a comprehensive system of belief, does there really exist a 'natural morality' that some philosophers have written about, that will constrain human behavior, without the commandments of a God, or the guns of a police force? The charitable acts of a Christian are enjoined by his God; an atheist might be at least as charitable, or more so. But five hundred years on, in a society without belief, do the charitable and self-restraining beliefs survive, or do men revert to the world that prevailed ten thousand years ago?" (Hieronimo, from Six Word Memoirs)

Soviet Union Redux

Under the Hammer & Sickle, Christmas was taboo.  Only winter celebrations were allowed.  Here in the good ole US of A, bizarrely enough, we are following suit.  (Be sure also to click on the link of the actual memo!) 

Then again, our dear Congress already set the example years ago.

Slowly, ever so slowly, the frog continues to boil...

"Thanks" To Useful Idiots Like Him...

the Muslim scourge continues unabated.

MSNBC's 'No-Fly List Is Islamophobia' Poster Boy Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell  (click on headline for article)

They Come By It "Honestly," After All

It's genetically wired into them:  they're just carrying on the "tradition" {snort} of their radical grandparents' generation, aka Red Diaper Doper Babies and useful idiot cohorts.

"The College of William & Mary, Jefferson’s alma mater, is one of many schools in America where student activists are debating the legacy of the Founding Fathers and demanding the removal of anything that commemorates them."  (Article here.)

On the other hand, this is hugely encouraging.  We can only hope that this "starter batch" will function as the spark for a firestorm counter-movement.

Characteristically Basking In False Guilt

(Yet they'll never take the blame for the 50 year long suicidal cultural jihad they've been waging...)

Borrowed from Drew Reddington:

Jihadist: “We did this because our holy texts exhort us to to do it.”

Leftist: “No you didn’t.”

Jihadist: “Wait, what? Yes we did…”

Leftist: “No, this has nothing to do with religion. You guys are just using religion as a front for social and geopolitical reasons.”

Jihadist: “WHAT!? Did you even read our official statement? We give explicit Quranic justification. This is jihad, a holy crusade against pagans, blasphemers, and disbelievers.”

Leftist: “No, this is definitely not a Muslim thing. You guys are not true Muslims, and you defame a great religion by saying so.”

Jihadist: “Huh!? Who are you to tell us we’re not true Muslims!? Islam is literally at the core of everything we do, and we have implemented the truest most literal and honest interpretation of its founding texts. It is our very reason for being.”

Leftist: “Nope. We created you. We installed a social and economic system that alienates and disenfranchises you, and that’s why you did this. We’re sorry.”

Jihadist: “What? Why are you apologizing? We just slaughtered you mercilessly in the streets. We targeted unwitting civilians – disenfranchisement doesn’t even enter into it!”

Leftist: “Listen, it’s our fault. We don’t blame you for feeling unwelcome and lashing out.”

Jihadist: “Seriously, stop taking credit for this! We worked really hard to pull this off, and we’re not going to let you take it away from us.”

Leftist: “No, we nourished your extremism. We accept full blame.”

Jihadist: “OMG, how many people do we have to kill around here to finally get our message across?”

Perfect Number Skills

Continuation After Long Hiatus

Yah, Real Convincing!

Will They EVER See the Light?

Maybe it's too late now, what do I know.  But  it does seem to me that if the West's pollyanna-minded Leftist leaders had been in touch with reality from the get-go, all (or at least most of) these terrorist fiascos could have been avoided.  Viz: RETURN TO SANE IMMIGRATION POLICIES.

What, oh WHAT causes this utterly insane BLINDNESS on their part?  It's like a redux of their blindness about Bolshevism.

Sickening!

Fiat

Lateral Thinking, Extreme Case

7 (Crazy) Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs

Very Close To Home

Can your memory can get bad enough where you forget to breathe?

Wondrous Works Galore!

The LORD's amazing creativity (and His humor, it seems to me) never ceases to fascinate.  This critter makes you want to "Axelotl" questions, like, "Are you from outer space?  Are you a hybrid starfish-lizard, one of Darwin's desperately needed missing links?  What cartoon did you step out of?"

Artificial Intelligence Is Not

If you're a regular reader of my blog, you know that between me'n Google, there's something of an (1-way) animus:  the search engine is incapable of properly matching up images. Here's the latest hilarious result (I dunno, maybe google simply suffers from a massive case of hyper-lateral thinking?).

On the other hand, maybe it's a case of:  "In the face of nightmarish monsters like that, heaven help us!" 

Take your "Change"

and leave me my dollars.

More Edible Looking Ones...

This one's called Chromodoris Kuniei.

Looks Good Enough To Eat!

Imagine making a lowly sea slug to look like an exquisite piece of pastry!  This is Helgerda Tessellata.

They'd Be Apoplectic!

Can you imagine this happening in the U.S.?  The NannyStaters would be going ballistic!

Not a Romney fan, here, but the principle this illustrates is spot on!

Most Deserving of Protection

Another Healing Weed

So, we all know about medical maryjane, but who'd have thought that something as lowly (and pesky) as the dandelion just might help with certain types of blood cancer?  (source)

Amazing!

Rubble Heap

Sometimes, ya just feel like scree.

Another Spoiled Brat

The Oregon shooter was nothing but an "Indigo child." 

" 'He goes through the list of what he doesn't have'...No job, no life, no success." (source)  Awe, gee, poor fella:  there're only billions of other people on the planet in the same boat---and for centuries, no less...

Hide-N-Seek Solitaire

From a long time ago:

So, [name withheld], how long can a man continue to exist on a fictitious identity, hmmnn? No, I'm not referring to a legal fictitious identity, but a socio-psychological one. How long can you keep running from yourself by playing the mirror-n-chameleon game?

And Yet Sodomy Gets Promoted By Law

I have been an avid walker for decades, but this is preposterous:

"On September 15, the US Surgeon General issued a new nationwide call to action:  Walk more!...The call to "Step it Up" recognizes the responsibility of urban and city developers, urging communities to promote and design walk-friendly neighborhoods. In all, the five strategic goals presented by the Surgeon General include:

1. Make walking a national priority [????]
2. Design communities that make it safe and easy to walk for people of all ages and abilities. [This type of community depends on not having gov't. funded housing.  Oh, the irony!]
3. Promote programs and policies to support walking where people live, learn, work, and play.
4. Provide information to encourage walking and improve walkability.  ["Improve walkability"?  You mean better sidewalks?  More parks?  Or is this aimed at yet more interference in our health "care"?]
5. Fill surveillance [?????], research, and evaluation gaps related to walking and walkability.

The Surgeon General even offers a playlist on Pandora  to listen to during your walks, if you don't already have some favorite music to inspire you to get moving. [Is this a joke?  People ostensibly aren't even able to choose their own music or lectures anymore?  Can you BELIEEEEEVE the extent of patronizing and infantilization this administration practices toward us?!?!?!]"   (source)