Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. What would Batman do?

□ [“Army-Navy Crowd ERUPTS into Chants of “USA! USA!” as President Trump Steps on Football Field at Game"]

Ok, there's people definitely on his side.  He knows that and, although I assume he attended previous Army-Navy games, I think it's safe to assume he was at this one for a deliberate reason.  I just wonder if we'll ever learn the reason.  Also if LTC Miller was with him although obviously we won't be hearing anything about what he's working on.

Congress will also be involve in the conflict, Republicans in the House have been demanding the voter fraud be investigated and now Bill Pascrell [D-NJ] demands that those 126 members not be seated in the House.  He cites democracy and the Constitution which is rare for a Democrat these days.

Still working on the next book.  I still insist that it won't be finished by the end of the year but I am working on breaking that promise.  If it gets to where I'm just down to having the problems with Amazon that they've added this year, I'll consider it done.

Anyway, one thing I've noticed is that I definitely singled out "individuality" as the target of leftism in history.  As always, I have to cite that "leftism" isn't an accurate term, I only use it out of convenience because everyone else does.  "Center" and "edge" would be more accurate than "right" and "left" but still iffy.  Can't individual right-wingers go to the "edge"?  How else would the "center" be able to expand?

One problem is that even the "left" is made up of individuals.  No matter how much they insist otherwise, they are all individual human beings.  That alone makes it difficult to identify them because we can't perceive enough of our wife or husband, much less dozens of people we barely interact with, much less thousands, millions, billions of individuals.

Then there's the way leftists can immerse themselves in non-leftist organizations without being perceived.  Someone on the right has no reason to join a leftist organization, there's nothing to gain except pussy or maybe men with guns who impose the leftist leader's will on everyone else.

While editing today, I noticed having written a comment about racism being leftist.  Sure, it removes individuality as the primary reason of existence.  And it does link with the history of Democrats, from segregated areas to "blacks only" areas, the KKK training and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who said they're only black if they vote for him, LBJ knowing how to keep blacks where they are for 200 years which is still going...

I don't really have a conclusion, as much as anything this was a 'note to self' for something to work on later.  "Race" is by definition not about individuality but "racist" individuals are possible.  [Of course the left now says everything is racist, making it completely pointless.]


China Furthers Its Hong Kong Takeover – Now Politicians Who Spoke Out About China Are Targeted and Arrested
December 12, 2020

Still three weeks left to go in 2020, what else could happen?

□ [“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time Magazine’s 2020 Person of the Year"]

You think that's a good idea?  They represent all the violence and destruction that's gone on since January?  They represent all the dictators of cities and states ignoring their own rules like, well, Democrats have been doing?

Most states are now on one side or another with the upcoming Supreme Court battle.  24 support the Texas lawsuit, 17 support the voter fraudsters.  This comes up from the state attorney generals - I think some legislators are making statements as well - so when will it come down to individual people?

The evidence is all on one side - 174,000 fake votes have been found in one Michigan county! - but will the court go for it?  Apparently not, I just found they've rejected it.  I haven't trusted the courts on this and obviously I was right.  What now?

□ [“Harrison Ford to reprise Indiana Jones role for fifth and final movie"]

What the hell is this for?  He's 78 years old now, that's not how to do Indiana Jones, 12 years younger than Sean Connery who played his father.  The only way it could remotely work if it's basically a cartoon, all special effects, no real people involved.

I've never understood why Ford claimed to like Indy so much.  Sure, he's a fun adventure character but so is Han Solo and Ford absolutely didn't like him.  Neither of them have much personality beyond being the Hero (or in Han's case, the smuggler) and they both get into similar scenarios.  The only thing I can think of is that Ford's just not interested in that kind of space fantasy, he'd prefer movies that are more basic.

Even that's speculation, I assume he grew up seeing things like Buck Rogers.  Perhaps filming Star Wars was really not fun for him or being the star in Indiana Jones made it different or the reaction fans had to each role.  But he's only been Indy once in the last 30 years, now he wants to do it again?  He needed large paychecks to play Han more than once ever and has done that twice in the last decade.

Gov. Cuomo Closes Indoor Dining in New York City Indefinitely Due to ‘Rising Covid-19 Cases’
December 11, 2020

US Supreme Court Throws Out Texas Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin
December 11, 2020

Joe Biden Already Planning Executive Orders On Gun Control
December 10, 2020

You're the Tops

Editing the book, I found some comment I'd made on Mussolini.  Trying to work out what I was getting at, I'm trying to look it up and found a few quotes I want to keep in mind.

“There are only two fatherlands in the world:  that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.”
- La Lotta di Classe (1910), while a socialist, paraphrasing French socialist Gustave Hervé

This one strikes me as very leftist, belief that human existence can be so limited.

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
- Speech to Chamber of Deputies (December 9, 1928)

This obviously follows in the same path, there can be nothing else except this simplistic statement, the person making the statement says so and will send men with guns to punish anyone who disagrees.

“Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.”
-"The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)

Still more, obviously individuality is what God created and they oppose it.  I also suspect that this is really where the distinction really comes from, recognizing that a state has to keep existing.  I assume they expect to be the one in charge, "national socialism" and it does make a fundamental disagreement with other leftists, unless they can get something out of it.

“I don't like the look of him.”
-To his aide after Mussolini's first encounter with Hitler (1934)

Leftists don't like other leftists.  IIRC, Hitler was originally a Mussolini fanboy but obviously Germany was in a different situation from Italy and they had to go their own ways, except when it came to staying in control.  It's also worth noting that in many ways, women don't like other women.  Jus' saying...

“I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people.  When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.”
- As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power (2006)

I'll have to look that up to see if it's a real quote.  It's totally believable but did it really happen?

Be careful what you wish for, you might not get it and then you'll be whinny and depressed and annoying everybody, gawd!

□ [“Portland Autonomous Zone Established Despite Mayor’s Vow; Police Chief Begs For Peace As Weapons Stockpiled And Assaults Already Taking Place"]

They're doing it again and of course they have the only authority that matters.  I guess they're trying to attract people who agree with them, possibly inspire the same thing to happen elsewhere, but otherwise I really don't see the point of any of this.

□ [“Press Shooed Away and Wranglers Step in Front of Cameras After Jill Biden Asked About Federal Investigation Into Hunter Biden’s Dealings with China"]

Obviously they were protecting Biden by pretending that absolutely nothing on and anyone to the contrary was evil homophobic racist but I'm not totally convinced that they're trying to drop Biden now so Harris can be POTUS.  They could have made it all happen behind closed doors and continued attacking anyone who thought China owned Hunter Biden and his father.

Then there's the way there's suddenly an attack on old leftists.

□ [“Report: Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein 'Seriously Struggling' – Cognitive Decline ‘Evident For Several Years’"]

Why not go after Pelosi?  She has to know she'd be in line for this sort of attack and keeps losing Democrat control of the House, why keep her around?  She's several years older than Ronald Reagan was when she entered the House and complained at how old he was then.  There's a reason I have to wonder if the Ruth Ginsberg death was a turning point somewhere even if we'll never know how.

Anyway, I do think the left is making a turn here, given how they no longer pretend democracy is relevant.  The voter fraud and kicking out the "elected" candidate in place of someone who quit running before any primary votes is one part - they were obviously going to do that, I'm just not convinced that bringing up Hunter Biden was the way they were going to go about it - all the Democrat mayors and governors who blatantly ignore the virus rules they put in place is another.  And they would undoubtedly want to remove old weak members and replace them with more compliant youths.

If this stuff doesn't end soon, 2021 is just going to make everyone far more insane.  We're tired of this.

Like that means anything, I've been predicting an upcoming Civil War 2.0 for sixteen years but it's not like I actually wanted it to happen.

President Trump Announces Another Peace Deal in the Middle East – Israel and Morocco Agree to Full Diplomatic Relations
December 10, 2020

CA HHS Secretary Admits Outdoor Dining Ban Is About Control, Not Science
December 9, 2020

“So the decision to include, among other sectors, outdoor dining, and limiting that, turning to restaurants to deliver and provide takeout options instead, really has to do with the goal of trying to keep people at home, not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining,"
- Mark Ghaly, the state’s Health and Human Services Secretary

I included the above last night, I'm just curious how blogger.com keeps track of the dates.

One toke of Rococo Coffee over the line

Is something going on for Christmas?  It seems like there's a slight uptick in ornaments already.  Maybe people just put them up because they had nothing else to do but as always, I wonder...  It's not like I have anything else to do.

□ [“Bernie Sanders Admits Democrats Blocked COVID Relief For Americans"]

They don't even try to pretend they're doing this for anything other than power.  I'm trying to figure out when this change was made.  I've suspected for a while that Democrats have thrown parties at various funerals, so maybe it would be McCain's funeral that it happened.

□ [“17 States Join Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Over Fraudulent Election"]

Ok, now we're getting to Civil War 2.0.  Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.  The North Dakota-to-Texas line sticks out, a total division of east-west.

Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have to respond by 3:00 PM Thursday (tomorrow.)  It's not clear what they have to respond to or how, possibly it's just reporting to the court that they will defend themselves or something along those lines.  This is probably what Trump was referring to about something happening in the 'next few days.'

Is this why there was a Supreme Court change right before the election?  I remember comments after the 2018 elections that keeping the Senate was the important part and obviously they'd be required for the new Supreme Court members.  I don't trust them and I'm not happy that we went this far (and will obviously go farther) but thinking about this suggests how high-up decisions get made.

Cuomo's Lockdown Threat Loophole Spares 'Saturday Night Live'
December 8, 2020

It was forty years ago today! Sergeant Pepper got his revenge.

Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, age 97
December 7, 2020

I've been thinking about Lennon lately although I'm not sure what to say.  I didn't even realize until around noon that it was the 40th anniversary.

2060 Verified Dead Absentee Voters in Wayne County Michigan, how many more are there?
December 7, 2020

I am wondering if all these proofs of vote-fraud are building up to something.  Redoing the election would be the most obvious choice but is that remotely doable?  What other option is there?  My worry is that the Supreme Court will simply ignore all the cases they're offered.

□ [“Schumer pressures Biden to bypass Congress to cancel $50,000 in student debt per borrower"]
□ [“Nancy Pelosi Creates Tiny 101-Day Working Schedule for Next Congress"]

Once again they show that they have no interest in the republic.  They aren't going to do any work, they'll just get a paycheck.

□ [“Wayne's World Reunited Apart - PARTY TIME!"]

Another Youtube video series.  I started watching this looking forward to it and I've seen they've done similar shows with Ferris Bueller, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future, but I'm not sure I want to see those now.  This had the main cast, the director, several producers and still more people all for a video that's barely half an hour long.

Wayne and Garth could have handled that, maybe bringing in cameos here and there.  Tia Carerre was a nice addition - and the show ended with her singing a verse or so of "Ballroom Blitz" which made me smile - but that's just too many people.  Alice Cooper didn't need to be there, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry didn't need to open the show, Brian May and Roger Taylor didn't really add anything but their presence.  Queen's been my favorite band ever since the movie came out and this didn't help anything.

There wasn't much in the way of serious discussion, just a few brief descriptions of how the movie was set up and a few scenes mentioned.  They spent more time reciting a couple of scenes or lines than anything else and there was some brief "trivia game" with two or three irrelevant questions.  Tia and Rob Lowe were the best additions and brought the most content, Lowe describing the change to comedy and hosting SNL, Tia pointing out that she had to turn down a job on Baywatch to be in the movie, stuff like that.

It's a nice novelty but I don't see much benefit beyond showing that these people still exist.  I'm not saying I won't see any of the others - Back to the Future is still tempting - but they didn't even bother to get Chris Farley, what's up with that?

□ [“It's Time to go BACK TO THE FUTURE! | Reunited Apart with Josh Gad"]

This one was more enjoyable because they had fewer people involved so they could get into more detail.  Nothing special was said but it was fun.  An amusing opening, Christopher Lloyd who thinks it's an interview and refuses to talk about Back to the Future so the guy asks about Taxi, what was that like, did Reverend Jim believe in time-travel?  This one ended with people (no idea who they are) playing "Power of Love" which I haven't heard in ages but I'm not complaining.

Obviously Crispin Glover was there, I assume no one wanted him involved.  No idea why they didn't invite Biff.  They did include both actresses playing Jennifer, the joke was that Claudia Wells only showed up after everyone else was gone, "I always wanted to meet Elizabeth Shue."

This was much better.  I'll probably watch the Ghostbusters video because it's Ghostbusters, duh, but how can they pull that off?  Egon is dead, Rick Moranis almost-certainly completely retired and Bill Murray is, well, Bill Murray.

□ [“GHOSTBUSTERS Reunited Apart"]

Also better than the first one.  They only brought in extra people at the end.  They weren't needed either but ok, Jennifer Runyan.  Again there was more detail than the Wayne's World video.  Bill Murray was, well, Bill Murray but not in a bad way.

It probably varies but to an extent, some of the actors have been more in character which is nice.  Annie Potts is always fun and they got her to open up the video as Janine answering the call.  I'm not really interested in seeing the people repeat their dialogue - although there are exceptions -  and they don't much detail about their characters or situations.  Sigourney Weaver at least said something about the work and apparently it was her idea to turn into a dog.  I had heard before that it was a deliberate acting challenge for her, she'd just been in Alien which was not remotely like dealing with Saturday Night Live creators.

I'm still ambivalent on the songs being used but well, Ray Parker Jr. singing and guitar for the theme song is totally worth watching.  The only disappointment was they didn't have everybody else  telling us who we gonna call.

I suppose I'll watch Ferris Bueller although they definitely won't have the writer/director in this one as John Hughes is also quite dead.  If I'm not wasting time on movies, it's still some sort of videos but that's how it goes.

There's also a tribute to John Hughes .  Most of the actors are not remotely recognizable and Chevy Chase is not remotely in shape, he could barely recite the dialogue and I don't remotely want to know what happened to Judd Nelson.

The Ferris Bueller reunion was all right.  Ben Stein looks about as out-of-shape as Chevy Chase although with their ages, it makes sense.  They didn't end with a song but did have Kristy Swanson repeat her line of dialogue.  "Thank you, Simone."  "No problem whatsoever."

I guess it is nice to hear the dialogue repeated.  It's not a big deal, they don't have to act or expand the characters, just recite what helped them get this far, but it's overall a fun idea.

So this is Pearl Harbor Day and what have you done?

We're almost out of time.  The Electoral College is meeting in a week.  Obviously the conflicts will continue afterwards no matter what, but we're out of time.  There's no reason it should have gone this far.

□ [“President Trump: 'The Case Has Been Made – You’ll See a Lot of Big Things Happening Over the Next Couple of Days'"]

We've heard that before.  Given his media experience and the service of people like LTC Miller, I can't understand why this wasn't handled behind the scenes with most of us completely ignorant of it.  I can imagine quite a bit of monitoring going on and probably can't imagine how many there actually was, Biden could have surrendered well before Election Day.

I have the privilege of having played a small role in that sort of area, I can still believe there's an overall plan/mission going on but do not see any reason for this.  2020 is not a year anybody's going to look back on with pleasure.

The left's plans are underway as well.  They're all working together one way or another.  They've gone from denying all voter fraud to saying there was no widespread evidence to saying it didn't actually change the results to saying it's too late to change things now.

□ [“The Covid-19 Crisis Has Wiped Out Nearly Half Of Black Small Businesses"]

Individual businesses are what they oppose and especially any blacks who dare to try getting out.  Just give them a limited amount of welfare and they'll never leave.  All businesses had to be started by individuals who have to make their own decisions and take the profit and the risk.  The people who do nothing but try to totally be in charge are the ones who oppose it.

Expert Identifies 200,000 Votes Hi-Jacked from Trump to Biden in Georgia at the Precinct Level
December 7, 2020

Protest Erupts In Front Of Radical MI Sec of State Jocelyn Benson’s Home After Lawmakers Discover All MI County Clerks Were Ordered to Delete All Election Related Data From Computers
December 6, 2020

Oregon Teacher Has Complete Meltdown at Anti-Lockdown Protesters, Tells Them to ‘Kill Yourself’
December 6, 2020

Just another manic Sunday, I wish it were Monday, that's my fun day. Or at least it's not Sunday, ewwwwww!

Dueling Pro-Trump Versus Antifa Rallies in Olympia Result in Gunfire
December 6, 2020

Michigan and Pennsylvania Secretaries of State Gave Far Left Rock the Vote Activists Access to Sensitive Data on All Voters
December 5, 2020

□ [“Trump Pulls Troops From Somalia, Gnashing of Leftist Teeth Follows"]

The "anti-war" movement is all nonsense, they're just going along with leftists and opposing anyone else.  Never mind all the months on Syria and Libya, two of my three Iraq deployments were under Obama and a third one elsewhere in the Middle East and there wasn't a protester to be found.  They aren't opposed to war, they're opposed to anyone who disagrees and are more than willing to send men with guns out to get them.

□ [“LA Restaurant Owner Rips Garcetti Hypocrisy: Why Shut Me Down While Allowing A Hollywood Canteen In My Parking Lot?"]

They really have no idea what they're doing, do they?  It's always about choosing the people who suck up to them and limiting or eliminating those who don't.  They have no idea how to run a business, they have no way to measure any method of success, all they can do is repeat the same slogans anyone else on their side recites and assume that's progress.

How do they get to that?  It's one thing to indoctrinate the youth but many of them do realize at some point that there's more to life outside leftism and set examples everyone else can see no matter what the indoctrinators demand.  How is it that so many people can't?  I don't even think it's conscious for the most part, they just don't think that way.

Don't ask what's wrong with you unless you really want to know the answer.

□ [“Multiple Brawls Break Out Between Trump Supporters and Antifa in Olympia, Militant Leftist Puts Out Desperate Call for Backup on Twitter"]

This is getting started.  Leftists should have said that no one should follow their example when pretending the supposed-new POTUS wasn't actually elected.  Now they have to openly point out that it's ok when they do something but not ok when other people do it.

I would definitely believe the right will win physical combat while it's still mob against mob.  They'll also win when guns start being used, the question is when and how that's going to happen.

Riots In Paris As Furious Masked Mob Set Cars On Fire And Throw Molotov Cocktails During Anti-Violence Rally
December 5, 2020

Australians Banned From Australian Island Bought by Chinese Developer
December 4, 2020

Still focusing on Claremont's X-Men (without actually trying to re-read it) and finally found actual release dates which weren't what the comics listed.  Drew Barrymore was born three days before Giant-Sized X-Men #1 came out, the only remaining important person from her Hollywood family.  Industrial Light and Magic was formed right after Claremont's first issue came out, there was a bit of delay in the release of #99 which I assume was just a little bubble as Jim Shooter had just taken over as Editor-in-Chief, then Star Wars started being filmed after #99 came out.  It was in theaters just before #107 came out Phoenix had appeared.

I'm still unsure what to think about the Barrymore family - as far as I know, E.T. is the only movie I've ever seen any of them in - but the rest of that can't be a coincidence.  What else went on around that time?

The Beatles' road manager Mal Evans pointed an air-rifle at police so they shot him.  Rebel Without a Cause/gay idol actor Sal Mineo was shot by a mugger, the Eagles released the first platinum album in history, their greatest hits.  Marvel and DC were messing with their prices which finally put Marvel in charge of the comics industry.  Freddie Prince Jr. was born, a bigger star than his father ever was but his father seems to have been messed up in Hollywood stuff.  That's ignoring things going on in the rest of the world (like the Olympics) and I've probably already formatted a bunch of stuff in my "history project" so I can't find it right now.  And that's only February.

Harold Wilson suddenly quit as British Prime Minister and a few days later, Princess Margaret announced she was getting divorced.  The Socialist Party won in France and Philistines finally got around to uniting against Israel.  David Bowie's The Man Who Fell To Earth was released and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept the Oscars.  [Odd, Bowie was supposed to do the soundtrack for his movie but contractual limitations got in the way.  That's not so odd, his manager was problematic to say the least.  So instead they got John Phillips, another one of those lunatics whose bad influence probably hasn't yet been measured enough.]  The Bad News Bears movie came out, featuring Michael Jackson's girlfriend [!] Tatum O'Neil.  This would become a TV show staring another Michael Jackson buddy, Corey Feldman.  Patty Hearst was on trial.

Howard Hughes would die just as April started.  That's a lot of stuff going on and I haven't even reached Jean Grey becoming Phoenix, much less her first appearance.

Oh, and I was born around this time.  I'm sure anybody could look up what was going on in the world when they were born and see a lot of odd coincidences, but, well, that's part of what my "history project" is about.  I'm still stuck in the 1500s and I'm wasting time on this, what's wrong with me?

It's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I'd rather just stay in bed and read a book.

One Batch of 23,000 Ballots All For Biden Identified in Georgia That Were Fraudulent – More than Enough for Trump Win
December 4, 2020

I'm not paying much attention to all the reports of vote fraud but obviously they're all there and there's more coming out.  So what do we do about it?  I don't have any answers.  It does sound like some state governments are starting to resist their Electoral votes although no idea if they're powerful enough to go through with that.

□ [“Biden to CNN: If Kamala and I Disagree on Principle – 'I’ll Develop Some Disease and Say I Have to Step Down'"]

And of course she's right there so she knows it.  The only question is if she actually wants to be openly in charge - my guess is 'probably', just to set the record - or would rather have someone else take all the blame for her decisions.  He also describes how he broke his foot by jumping out of a shower to chase a dog and pull its tail, none of which sounds like a man who should be in charge of a dog, much less the greatest nation ever.  Is he going to get naked and chase Chinese to stop them from owning slaves?  One assumes Nancy Pelosi will call on the 25th Amendment sooner rather than later.

□ [“Pelosi Admits She Sent Millions Into Poverty by Holding Up Covid Relief For Political Reasons – Says She is Now Willing to do Smaller Covid Deal with Biden"]

She's got her mansions, that's all that matters.  The peasants will have to just suffer until she gets around to doing anything.

While looking up any other news to see if I had anything to say, I just discovered that my former battalion commander is now the acting Secretary of Defense.  He still owes me a carton of smokes for all the times he bummed one.  If he called me up tonight and asked me to start working for him, I'd be there Monday morning.  He'd have to call early though, it'd be a long drive.

As much as anything, that's a way to describe the problems I've been having, with no where to go and no idea what to do.  I have been hearing signs that people are starting to work out some form of opposition.  It's not clear what or who but obviously that would start sooner or later.  I was never Special Forces [duh] but I did a damn good job working for them over ten years as a red-hatter and I'd give almost anything to do it again as a civilian.  At least I have that possibility, others have different ones but I truly believe they are going to start working together.  LTC Miller [I can call him that] is one of the guys who knows how it's going to work.

I'm not saying it gives me any hope, but it's nice to see someone I used to know get somewhere important instead of hanging out with bums like 2nd BN.

Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy? Is it what's behind Door #3?

□ [“Democratic socialist AOC gets destroyed on Twitter for selling $58 'Tax The Rich' shirts"]

How will poor people get one?  That price doesn't include shipping-and-handling charges.  She's not even trying to show any actual interest in poor people.  She knows where her fanbase is.

Trump gave a speech yesterday.  I didn't pay much attention, I'm still of the 'wait a while before responding to it' mentality.  But I did read the speech and it's a good summary of the fraud that's been found so far.  The problem is that it doesn't go anywhere.  There's no way any Democrat leader is going to quit now that they've gotten this far.  There's talk of Trump starting martial law which I think is a horrible idea and even if it wasn't, that's just how Democrats have been running states and cities for months now, and they don't even need to follow their own rules.

ANOTHER ONE: Dem Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards caught socializing at a country club without a mask in mid-November
December 2, 2020

Crazed Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Cancel Christmas: “It’s Time to Cancel Everything”
December 3, 2020

I've been thinking about the movie industry for months and one thing I've noticed is that the industry comes as close to faking an art form because of the sheer number of people involved in putting together even the most basic ones.

Actors and directors get all the attention but they aren't remotely a large part of the work.  The sets require designers and construction, management and cleaning.  Electricity, lights are needed, then there's costumes, sounding, cameras, make-up and that's just the stuff I can think of, there's probably a lot more.  The crew needs meals, many people have assistants, then there's the unions, the producers...  Notice I haven't even got into advertising or editing/printing the finished film reels.  The director doesn't do it himself.

No other artform requires anywhere near that many people or the same amount of money to create.  An opera, theater or orchestra does require a lot, but nowhere near that many.  The Rolling Stones need a lot of people to tour from stadium to stadium but that has more to do with playing stadiums and transport.  They still play theaters when they feel like it and I'd bet they bring more permanent staff with them than are needed for the performance.

I know there are exceptions to my examples but even there that's unusual.  No other bands are as big as the Stones.  Many movies have been made on very low budgets but still out of our range.  Plan 9 From Outer Space cost $60,000 in 1959 money, more than I've ever made in any year of my life.  I bet if I check the math, it'll be several years worth of my best paygrade ever.  The Blair Witch Project cost at least $200,000 in 1999 money, not counting advertising.

It may not be art, but making a movie does require awareness of large amounts of money that most people never have anything to deal with.  And I have to think that the nature of making the movies on this scale means diminishing individualism by its very nature.  Except the actors.  And the director and maybe the screenwriters, they're all important but everyone else can be replaced.

Music can require a large band but that's not required for anything beyond live performance.  Rock has usually just had four or five members of the band, Genesis and Rush have had even fewer.  Singers may not even play an instrument.  They can all play multiple instruments in the recording studio.

Then there's other art forms.  Books and paintings can be done by more than one person but they usually aren't.  Painters may have assistants, book companies usually come with editors and cover-designers, but they aren't required for the process.  Comics can be done by a minimum of people even in the harshest company conditions.  The penciller can ink and/or letter, the writer may draw, the artist may come up with the story and have someone else fill in the words, a black-and-white comic doesn't need a colorist.

So I wonder if that's a reason that leftism has been part of movies for their whole existence.  You could say it came from elsewhere, it was the early 20th century and leftism was trying to get into everything anyway, but it may explain those who focus so heavily on movies, thought isn't required and the only individuals who matter are the star actors on screen.

And we see them pushing this mentality on everyone whenever possible.  I'm just making the theory up and I'm sure it's not entirely correct but there does seem to be something to it.

Not sure what I have other than headlines today

□ [“REWRITING HISTORY: New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Claims Democrats Never Called Trump Illegitimate"]

He said it himself, is he not a Democrat?  Hillary said it, Jimmy Carter said it, are they not Democrats?  And they aren't the only ones who said it.  Is that what it means to be in Year 0 where nothing actually happened before?

That's how you know you're an elite, you can make up nonsense that completely contradicts other nonsense you made up and everyone has to treat you seriously.

Democrat Austin Mayor Urged People to ‘Stay Home’ as He Vacationed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with Family Members and Guests
December 2, 2020

San Jose Mayor ‘Apologizes’ After Getting Caught Gathering with His Family For Thanksgiving in Defiance of California Covid Order
December 1, 2020

NYC Bar Owner Arrested in Sting Operation For Defying Covid Order
December 2, 2020

New York State is seriously running stings and fining bars for not serving enough food
December 2, 2020

Nashville Police Criminally Charge Three Women For Hosting Football House Party in Violation of Covid Order
December 2, 2020

Try to see it my way, we can't work it out.

□ [“Parent company of Dominion Voting Systems Received $400 million from Swiss Investment Bank in October 2020 — 75% owned by the Chinese Government"]
□ [“WE GOT IT! — Col. Waldron Confirms US Has a Copy of the Election Night Data ‘Traffic and Packets’ Sent Overseas to Frankfurt!"]

Ok, we've definitely got something but this is just ridiculous for how long it's taking.

□ [“Missouri Lawmaker Discovers Dominion Failed to Pay Missouri Taxes and Is Not Allowed to Operate in the State — But They Are Still Running Elections Here"]

If true, it wouldn't be surprising if this went on in other states and cities.  You'd think the left would oppose that but it would require them to have a consistent standard that applies to everyone.  They want to punish Trump for following the tax laws of NYC and NY, why would they apply the same standard to everyone else?  Otherwise they'd have to be wondering why those Democrat-run cities and states are so incompetent and what other rich people are getting away with not paying taxes.  Or, in this case, a foreign business handling elections.

How could this not have been watched as soon as it started?  Of course some people are still assuming the reveal is ready.  I'm tempted to ask if we can expect it in the 2020s or if the 2030s are more likely.

NYC Mayor de Blasio Allows In-Person Elementary School Starting on December 7 - Just before Christmas break or will they be banning Christmas?
November 30, 2020

LA County Supervisor Caught Dining at Restaurant Just Hours After Voting to Ban Outdoor Dining Over Covid-19 Concerns
December 1, 2020

Iran Changes Story, Claims Nuclear Weapons Chief Killed by Israeli-Made ‘Remote-Controlled Device' - Not an ambush by several gunmen and truck with explosives
December 1, 2020

Do unto others what they've been doing to everyone for four years.

A couple rumors have come out today, obviously no proof now, maybe never.  If there's actually an overall plan to keep the election from being stolen, one rumor says Biden actually asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to help get a pardon from Trump for him and his family.  That actually came from a Chinese news show, cannot find the name and obviously no reason to believe it even if I did.  Another rumor says that the female head of the CIA has just died of "natural causes."  Not the virus then?  At least she didn't break her leg like Biden.

Definitely not seeing any reason for hope.  It would be nice to have some.  Obviously the left has wanted to demoralize us all year, is it because that's just their thing or out of fear their schemes were being caught?

I've finally found a glimmer of, not hope or leadership, but at least a direction to head next.  In hindsight, it's probably believable that it would take a few weeks to think of something.  We may have even had similar thoughts but I haven't seen them put into simple words yet.  The websites I've seen - and have been following precisely because I needed it - have been reading like the plan would come to fruition any moment and Trump would continue his Presidency.  I still hope that happens but it was indistinguishable from Democrats saying the same thing when they lose.  Of course they don't lose because the election was stolen but they think they did and that's the effect here.  The rumors posted at the top came from such sites.

But this comes off as a basic direction and view to keep going with, there are concepts that can be used in practice.
□ [Instapundit: #Resist]

Using game theory, it has been determined that the proper way to respond to defection from optimal behavior between two parties, is to match any bad behavior by equal retaliation. Acquiescing in bad behavior without consequences simply gets you more of it.

So, the only rational rational response for Trump supporters, after the last four years is to respond to Biden exactly as Trump was treated:

#NotMyPresident
#StolenElection
#FuckBiden
#Resist

First, no one who voted for or supports Trump will recognized Biden as legitimate. Second, everyone who voted for Trump will believe and continue to proclaim that the election was stolen, in this case with far more factual basis. Third, Biden will not be given any deference or respect due to his office, but will be given only contempt and profane disrespect. Fourth, there will be no prospect of cooperation but only opposition, in every lawful way, to everything he says, does, or proposes, all day, every day, until he is gone.

At some future date reconciliation may be possible. But not until the last four years has been repaid in full.

And the foregoing is on the presumption that Biden will be sworn in as President, which he should not be, and which may not happen.

This is understandable.  We already have a lot more proof of what they've done then they ever had.  The only thing they can do is destroy things and give orders, the orders that there's no reason to obey.  I do assume their pretension to "equality" will be one of the first things they ditch, they cannot permit their inferiors to have any of the rights they claim, the builders, those who know how to deal with reality, or men with guns.

The left is in a somewhat-similar position, they're finally starting to get around to thinking about how they could have unquestionably believed in the "Blue Wave" and been so completely wrong.  How are they supposed to keep their promises if they lost House seats and will have to steal the Georgia elections just to get 50% in the Senate?  Where did they get the notion that they'd win big time?  Every poll, every interview, every media article, all insisted that this would happen, no if's, and's or but's.  Hell, Trump even got more votes than every other Presidential candidate in history except one and he didn't go through graveyards for his.

How are Democratic leaders supposed to continue the propaganda that got them their voters when it totally didn't work?

I don't know where we'll be four years from now, only one way to find out.

Georgia Dem Senate Candidate Ossoff Says We Need a One-Party Government During Pandemic Crisis
November 29, 2020

Former FBI Special Agent Finds 17,514 Georgia Voters with Out-of-State Forwarded Mail Addresses
November 30, 2020

Star-studded "Time’s Up" charities spent big on salaries, little on helping victims
November 28, 2020

Ben Bova, science fiction author, 88 years old
November 29, 2020

When you're smiling, the whole world wonders what's wrong with you.

In a week, the Electoral College will get together.  So we're totally at the end of the line here.  I actually have more trust in them than on the courts but a) maybe I'm wrong and b) so what would that do?  If they don't come to a decision, I believe it goes down to the House and that won't be good.  I still can't believe these would be the only defenses in place all along the line.

That said, I suddenly have a fantasy about this being a set-up and every member of the EC receives a letter clearly sent years earlier but describing exactly what's been happening these days and what's being done about it.

They're also having problems with the Georgia vote counting machines.  As always, I haven't looked closely so I'm not sure what to believe, but they're broken, being erased or flat-out missing.  Also the judge who keeps changing his mind has reportedly gone back to ordering a delay.

Oregon Gym Fined $90,000 For Staying Open During Covid Shutdown, As County Commissioners Take Trips To Hawaii
November 29, 2020

Perspective: St. Louis Has 239 Homicides this Year and 238 Coronavirus Deaths – At Least 50 Children Shot So Far This Year
November 29, 2020

Massive Islamic Terrorist Attack In Nigeria Results In Deaths Of At Least 110 People
November 29, 2020

Nature pricks them and their heart engages, the people long to go on pilgrimages or just anywhere outdoors for a change!

NYC Pub Borrows a Page From Leftists in Lockdown Dispute, Declares Itself an 'Autonomous Zone'
November 28, 2020

□ [“Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tosses GOP Lawsuit on Absentee Ballots, Lifts Block on Certification of Election"]

This is an example of the problems I've been having with what-little-we-know about what's going on, the courts aren't trustworthy as a way to settle the problem.  Obviously they have to go through this before going to the Supreme Court but at this point I don't see a reason to trust the Supreme Court either.  And pretending everything goes the way it should, the left won't believe in it so what's the point?

I do wonder just how random Ruth Bador Ginsberg's death was, given how quickly the Senate moved through for a replacement.  If she were still alive (assuming she hadn't retired oh who am I kidding?) would everything be different now?  That's one of those things that I don't think we'll ever learn the truth about.

□ [“Judge Timothy Batten Issues Order to Freeze All Dominion Machines in Georgia …UPDATE: Judge Reverses Order Within Hours"]

Another example, the most obvious guess is that he's giving into whichever side hit him last.  I've been wondering about Georgia for a while anyway and would like to find some detailed history on its election process.  Two Republican governors between July 1868-January 1872 and the next one took office in January 2003.  I've already looked at Atlanta having even fewer Republican mayors.  At least the northern states bounced back and forth.  One Republican Senator in 1871, the next in 1980, then they started mixing up and both have been Republican since 2005.  Majority of Republicans in Congress between 1868 and 1875, then the next one took office in 1965, two more in the 1960s.  One Republican in 1979, one in 1985, three in 1993 and since then most have been Republican.

Republicans ran the state senate for two years in 1869-70, lost the majority in 1871 and it was 1965 before you needed two hands to count the number of members, 1989 before you needed more than two hands to count them and 2003 when they had a majority.  The state house has more members so obviously there were more Republicans, sometimes even needing two hands to count after the Civil War.  1965 and 2003 show up again for the increase and majority.

At this point I have to wonder if Democrats were just so messed up in 1965 - technically the 1964 election - that this is why they started losing seats and magically decided Republicans were the ones doing all those awful things they had done for a century.  But 2003 has always been interesting and I've never figured out what happened.  I remember the Republican majority increased in DC and it was noted to be unusual for any POTUS to see that in the off-year elections.  It was also guessed that it was a post-9/11 reaction which is certainly possible.  I think it's a large part of it but it can't be all, can it?

Joe Biden’s Team Won’t Allow Pool Reporters to See Biden Go In or Leave Doctor Appointment After He Twists His Ankle – No Explanation Given
November 29, 2020

Didn't that happen to Axl Rose right before the G'n'R reunion?  I'd swear it happened to someone else around that time which was why I noticed it, although I don't remember any details.  I used to have a memory, I really did.  I remember having one!

David Prowse, Darth Vader, age 85
November 28, 2020

If John Lennon actually needed help, wouldn't he have told somebody?

I actually do have more things to say than I had yesterday, but I've been working on the book all day so I dunno how much I've worked out.

It's basically a given that the left stole the election, they just don't want to admit it.  No matter how many Republicans won, all the votes were for Biden who somehow got lower votes in most counties than previous Democrat candidates yet set a new record of over 10 million votes?  Would they have gotten that record if he'd been on top of the ticket instead of that loser Obama?  Half a million "people" voted for Biden and no one else?  They weren't the ones electing Republicans.

Now the left isn't going to acknowledge any of this but they avoid reality in the first place.  Notice how in the last few years, everything became "racist."  China can keep adding slaves but they're not opposed to slavery, China even supported Biden and gave Biden's son tons of money somehow.

Unfortunately there's still rumors of something big going on behind the scenes.  The latest rumor I've seen says there are over 20,000 deputized people ready to move in on the sting.  It wasn't just investigating the 2016 elections, it was preparing for 2020.  It'll be biggest at "17 days before Trump gets sworn into office," that would be January 3.

Here's the record to this rumor just in case something happens but I'm not optimistic.  I've said many times that there's no reason this shouldn't have been well on the way before Election Day and we've seen nothing of that.  This is not the way to go and every day nothing has happened proves me less and less wrong.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332325278010515457.html

I thought there was a chance for this plan to work but it would happen before Thanksgiving.  Before that I thought it would happen two weeks after the election.  Before that one week after.  Before that it would only be a day or so.  Before that, well, I thought their plans would take care of things before the election.  I'm starting to look for comments I made like that, such as October 26, "I do think that Biden can’t win without several tons of vote fraud."  Well, we got that, now what?

It's not like these millions of people - I assume at least some are currently alive - will suddenly realize what's been going wrong, it's what they believe they've been going for their entire lives.  I'll say it again, Biden could flat-out admit that he stole the election with fake votes and they'd still insist he was now POTUS, ignoring what day the Constitution says he'll actually get the job.

I definitely don't trust judges or the Electoral College to stop this.  They should but there's no reason to believe in them at this point.

Still trying to get used to being back on a blog.  I will definitely give Facebook credit for being able to post as much or as little as I had to say at any given time.  On a blog I feel like saying more even if I'm not actually adding anything.  On Facebook I could make a quick comment, a longer comment, a paragraph or two or three or more.  I know that I could post multiple times per day on a blog, I just don't think it's the same format.  I'll see how it goes when I get around to finishing this new book and starting the next one.

Is Black Friday there to help Robinson Crusoe?

Toronto BBQ restaurant owner facing new charges for again defying COVID-19 lockdown rules
November 26, 2020

Reminder: In 2016 Democrats Threatened and Harassed Members of Electoral College to Stop Trump
November 26, 2020

FLASHBACK: Obama Says Mail-in Ballots Can Only Be Trusted if the Signatures are Verified (VIDEO)
November 27, 2020

Skin color tells leftists all they need to know about someone.  This is following the removal of individuality that they've always believed in since Marx or earlier.  I wonder how much of this is just to convince people to stay where they are until the government tells them to move.  Since they all think the same, they'll just obey without question.

At the same time, the elite get to show off their privilege in their mansions, private jets and so on.  Is there a coincidence in the rise of child-sex trafficking, particularly when the kids are flat-out told they don't have a gender and can have as much sex as their adult masters want?

Mysterious Spike in Incomplete NV Voter Registrations – 13,372 with Invalid Birthdates and Casinos and Temporary RV Parks as a Home Address
November 27, 2020

I don't know if I have anything to say today.  I've been working on the book as always.  I think I've got a little further in insights on leftism but not enough to put it into words.  I've noticed a bunch of other people seem to be doing that as well.  Why not, we're all watching it happen.

There are also reports that some of the state governments are trying to make a move against the stolen election.  We'll see if any of that gets anywhere.  It does seem to becoming more clear that Civil War 2.0 is underway.  We'll have to see where the first battles take place.  It wouldn't surprise me if people like the rulers of New York send out men with guns to impose their will on the people who aren't just going along.  They get the high life, the peons not so much.

Today's a day like any other.

□ [“Cuomo Calls Police Who Don’t Enforce Covid Orders Dicators"]

This is an example of how idiotic leftists are.  Dictators are about sending men with guns to everyone's houses and forcing them to obey which is exactly what he's doing.  Dictators are not about letting people do their own thing.  It's a dictator's job to come up with what everyone must do and forbid anything else, punishing anyone who isn't doing what he told them to.

Does he even have a clue what he's doing or is he that stupid?  I have wondered for a while if that's the point of the Trump presidency, to drive the left over the edge.  That's certainly what we're seeing.

□ [“Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page Bombshell Complaint of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election – Update: Michigan too"]

Ok, that's something.  I doubt it would have been hard to show this much voter fraud, obviously there are legal requirements that would take time, but how could they not be prepared before Day 0?  Put out to every group of voters what the left would try to do and have them there with their phones and cameras to show footage.  A lot of people aren't in such groups but there must be other ways to get the message out.  It looks like the right was completely surprised by this which shouldn't have been the case.  I knew long ago they would try everything they could and I was surprised on Election Night, safe to assume people who don't pay as much attention were even moreso.

Will this work?  Will it get anywhere?  Will any leftist in the world think Biden may not actually be POTUS right now?

□ [“Mexico’s President Still Refuses to Recognize Biden Win"]

There has to be a plan.  I can understand why we wouldn't know the details of the plan but I don't see any reason why it's been over three weeks and we're only getting vague notes that something is being done, much less that it has any chance of working.  I was lucky enough to spend years working with highly-trained-and-classified soldiers preparing for missions where it was important to make sure everyone knew what was going on and what effect they would have on.  Not everybody had to know everything but basics need to be put out as much as possible for the best chance of mission-success.

I think (hope) that's the sort of people handling the plan.  The military knows that China and Iran have been using this Dominion voter system, according to Powell's Georgia report.  I don't think it's remotely a coincidence that General Flynn has just received his pardon although it's not clear why now and not a year ago.  Perhaps it holds back the leftist judge that went after him?

It would be nice to think that this plan will go straight to the Constitution.  I've long suspected that this was the sort of thing the right did which the left couldn't.  Build something that works, what doesn't work falls apart.  The left is just going for whatever's on their mind at the moment and will ditch it in a heartbeat for something else.  They can't build anything, they can only take other people's work.

As an obvious example, why didn't Karl Marx use the internet?  If it didn't exist, why didn't he invent it?  Because it couldn't be created without the capitalist society he wanted to destroy long before it was ever conceived of and now marxists want to control the internet like everybody has a right to it.  The military knows how to do that and how to rely on what works while updating it.  It's the most ideal format of right and left and basically by definition, not everybody can be part of it.

If there's a plan to it or not, we're obviously at a crucial time in history.  I don't see any way it'll get better any time in the near-future.

Just a note, I'm editing the proof copy of the next book and reached an article written on August 30, 2018 about China's enslaving the Uighurs and I suddenly wondered if that partially explains the leftist change recently.

China knows how to control leftists, they already support communists and the state running slavery, could that be how they started calling everything "racism" when they're obviously projecting their own views on anyone who disagrees with them?  Could there be a translation of Uncle Tom which would explain why Democrats suddenly started bringing up now and hating as much as they did 150 years ago?  The best I can find on Google is that the first translation was in 1993.

Another day to go nowhere.

President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn
November 25, 2020

Child Abuse? HBO Max Documentary Celebrates 4-Year-Old Boy's Transgender Identity
November 24, 2020

Democrat Mayor of Denver Boards Flight to Houston to Visit Family Minutes After He Reminds People Not to Travel For Thanksgiving
November 25, 2020

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Encourages Residents to Call Police on Neighbors Violating COVID Rules
November 23, 2020

□ [“Pennsylvania Judge Blocks State From Certifying Election Results"]

There seems to be starting to be a move here.  Finally, over three weeks after the "election."  I don't know why but I'm still split increasingly, that there's a plan underway to defeat the leftists from stealing the election and that it's over, they've taken it and can't be stopped.  As always, I think it would have been much smarter to stop them at the time, now they've had more weeks to fake votes and who can we turn to other than Democrat judges?

□ [“NOT Making Headlines: Las Vegas Oddsmakers STILL Not Paying Out for Biden Victory — Gamblers More Honest than Garbage Dump Media"]

There's also reports that Obama staffers are kicking out people Biden would pick for his administration.  I can believe that but doesn't it always happen?  I've always suspected one of the reasons Hillary gave up was because Obama agreed to hire her people.  It's not like he cared about that and Biden is probably along the same lines.  At least it's worth noting at another problem Democrats are facing against each other, but whether that'll lead to anything will probably be unknown forever.  It's the people who helped get Biden "elected" who suffer for what other unelected people demand for themselves.

□ [“Marvel Officially Cancel Dark Agnes, Daily Bugle, Morbius MIA No More"]

There seems to be a lot more titles on this list that are being cancelled.  ["Seems to be" because it's not clear and the website doesn't give any explanation.]  Only a few titles are even close to #10 and it seems like about half were being cancelled by #5.  What do they think they can do?

One of the titles is an adaptation of the last Star Wars movie, what brings that on?  Another one is a reprint of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, the marriage of Peter and MJ.  That one just boggles the mind that anyone would even think of it, who in their right minds would want it if they didn't already have one?  [I have mine, thank you.]  It was one of Jim Shooter's last decisions as Editor-in-Chief and basically showed why he was such a horrible leader.  It was an awful story which damaged the company's main character for no sensible reason other than an excuse for Jim Shooter to prove he was in charge.

Anyway, what's going on with these titles?  Why is Marvel running so many and dropping them so quickly?  It might be a response to DC's recent decisions but there's no way to know, nor a clue of what they're going to do next.

Because I feel like it, I'm also adding comments I made on a website on July 5, 2015 about Peter Parker marrying Mary Jane Watson.  For whatever reason, copy-and-paste has kept it in the original format so we'll see how it looks when I push "post."

Making MJ a supermodel for any length of time definitely reduces her character. I don't think it's demeaning so much as I don't think it's MJ as she's always been. She's hot and she knows it ["Face it tiger, you've hit the jackpot"] but there's five thousand other women like her in that section of Manhattan alone. Women far less attractive than MJ have to put up with far more unwanted advances from men before they turn 18. In this story, MJ is being given a Ferarri by someone who tells her to keep it because he's got another one. There are women who have to deal with men like that, and it is possible that MJ is one of those women, but if she is, she's not going to marry Peter Parker. Even at her best and noblest 'til death do us part' she isn't going to pick a freelance photographer who climbs up walls and could very easily leave her a widow without a pension, she's not insane. Or maybe she is insane, in which case Peter should have stayed the hell away from her to begin with. He wound up siding with the devil to give his decrepit aunt another six months in intensive care just so he could get out of that marriage; it wasn't a healthy relationship.

Basically I could go either way on whether or not Spider-Man should be married, and although MJ was definitely the best choice, he shouldn't have married the MJ that we were given here. If she's being flown to Paris by anybody other than a supervillain who will use her in his master plan for world dominance, she's wrong for Peter.

As for Peter's problems not revolving around his marriage, that's my point. He could have been whining and complaining just as easily to her if they were both single, all she did was sit there and respond. He did not treat her the same way, and her problems were usually idealized supermodel problems that often required a superhero to solve. At best it was defying the trope if she solved the problem herself anyway. MJ could have done that whether she was married or not.

Why does Alice get a say in what you can or can't get at the restaurant? Does she think this is Wonderland or something?

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
—  Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 1858

As we approach Thanksgiving under lockdown, it's worth noting that it was started by people who would be called "leftists" today but the term didn't exist yet.  In fact, they're one of the most important groups of people who realized that leftism doesn't work and changed.

It makes me wonder if that's one of the points of Christianity, to provide so much motivation for leftism for so long.  I assume that the New Testament, along with the Old Testament and Koran, were partially about God engaging His adversary.  There's more to it than that, of course, but part of it was to give the adversary tactics to use, which will fail in the long run but is also a conflict that's way above our paygrades.  And of course the respective scriptures provide help for the individuals among them.

Of course leftism doesn't want any individuals except the people in charge.  Those people can even claim to be Christian as long as they're devoted to leftist dogma, i.e. No God Allowed.

Anyway, not having been raised with religion, I don't really know what the experience was like and even then it would be impossible to comprehend what it was like over 400 years ago.  John Smith infamously said "He who does not work shall not eat" around the same time and it's not hard to see that being for multiple possible reasons.

But it was realizing the need for individual ability that brought them success and centuries worth of influence.  If everybody gets the same thing regardless of how hard or well they work, there's no point in doing anything.  That was the spell the Pilgrims were under when they arrived and it took a year or so of suffering to realize there was another option.

That is what leftism is against, "from each according to his ability to each according to his need" according to whoever gets to make the decisions that everyone else must obey without question.  It never works and never will but that's what they have always gone for.

Ok, that's a good insight, I can use that.  My next theory is that it's why feudalism is their ideal society, assuming that they won't be the peons and they'll get to command everyone else who is because that's what not being an individual is about to them.

Raisins are just grape-jerky.

□ [“Israeli PM Netanyahu Met with Saudi Leader Mohammed bin Salman in Secret Trip to Saudi Arabia"]

Odd how there's no mention of stuff like this in the media or from so-called incoming POTUS Biden.  Shouldn't they be out there demanding that Israel doesn't exist and none of its neighbors are allowed to disagree with them?  Or couldn't they at least be appreciating Trump's accomplishment?  But that would be too much like work and it would just confuse their supporters.

I think I've made the point before but this is like Obama keeping the Bush tax cuts permanent, they can't say what they're doing because they've spent so long opposing it so they'll just go on pretending as they've been doing all along.  That is what they do.

NY Gov. Cuomo to Have Thanksgiving With Elderly Mother and Two Daughters After Telling New Yorkers to Not Have Family Gatherings
November 23, 2020

They're going to keep this up.  It's what they do.  It's looking more hopeless by the day to stand against them because it looks like nothing is being done against them.  I'm sure it's not the case but that's what it looks like.  If the left can't hold together on anything else, they can do it now at least for long enough to wipe out their opponents.

That's another theory that I've been getting, that at some level the left is telling the truth, they aren't after power.  It's whoever they cite as their enemies that they're really focused on, and yes, taking power is the only way to defeat their enemies, their true goal but they're focused on their enemies more than anything else.  We can see this with the cities they run falling apart, they don't want to be in charge, just to keep anyone else from doing anything.  Then the cities have gotten much worse this year and they don't want to help their citizens, they just want to use it as an excuse to go after their enemies.

I'm sure some leftists honestly want power and know it's the only way to get what they want, but what's unclear is how many of them don't and can be manipulated for "the cause."  Humans are far too complicated as individuals to make such widespread definitions which has always been a major weakness for the left and helps explain why tyranny is always the result when they take charge.

Don't think about this. It'll hurt your brain.

Time keeps passing.  Another weekend is gone.  The left sounds like they're planning to drop Thanksgiving and Christmas.  That'll go well.

MSNBC in 2019 Reports on How Easy It Is to Hack Dominion Software and ES-S Voting Machines (VIDEO)
November 22, 2020

It does sound like some demonstrations are getting started.  I've finally gotten through that "Rubicon" essay I linked to a few days ago and it does help set up much of the upcoming conflict.

I don't have much to say at the moment.  I've mostly been working on my next book or my "History Project."  I'm trying to re-read Claremont's initial X-Men storyline but between my reading problems and the dialogue/captions itself, that isn't easy or all that interesting.

□ [“The Comics Cube: Rick Veitch Interview: 1963"]

I found this interview last night and it was quite good.  The interviewer went to a large amount of detail of the creation and production of the series.  Rick Veitch looks old but I guess that's natural.  I was a fanboy for him and Steve Bissette at the 1993 Chicago Comicon and still remember that with happiness.

I think the biggest issue is 'just finish the damn series.'  Even if Moore never writes the second half of the "80-page annual," have Rick and Steve draw the script that was finished, call the new characters "Spewn" and "Yengbled" and that'll be good enough.

I've always wondered if 1963 was some sort of mystic program, given how it ended with the last issue and all the problems afterwards when the series failed.  Moore/Veitch/Bissette had done little or nothing with the Marvel characters or style so this was quite an anomaly from some of the most important creators of their era and right on the front-lines of what was happening in more places than comics at the time.

This is the sort of stuff I think about.

If you can read this, you have nothing better to do with your life. I pity you.

Guatemalans Are Currently Burning Down Their Congress After Series of Government Failures
November 21, 2020

Iran Again Uses Syrian Territory to Attack Israel, Plants IEDs Inside Israeli Border
November 21, 2020

Biden Scolds Reporter For Asking About Coronavirus and Schools, Doesn’t Answer Question
November 21, 2020

Notice that Democrats don't even seem to be remotely curious how Biden's going to rule a nation where half the voters believe he stole the election.  It's like they already know the answers, he has men with guns to enforce his will which is the same thing other Democratic state leaders are doing, ignoring what their state congresses have said and going on with whatever law they make up themselves.

They've wanted this for a long time and the only issue is how long they've been working on it.  50 years?  More?  Less?

To the extent that the goal is always the same, I think it's been less because the goal is always unrealistic.  Leftists don't look at reality, they look at what they want to see in their own minds.  That's why it's so difficult to figure out if this has been a plan or just going along with whatever.

After the dawn it's always too. They've stolen the sun.

Macron Gives Muslim Council Two Weeks to Agree to ‘Republican Values Charter’
November 20, 2020

NY Governor “Furious” That Cops Won’t Enforce His Thanksgiving Crackdown
November 19, 2020

I saw a cartoon of Gavin Newsom in his recent dinner party, including the photo of everyone close together and no one's wearing a mask.  It brings up Animal Farm with the pigs eating inside at tables which the animals they ruled were forbidden to do.

I'm surprised no one else has thought of that so far because it's pretty obvious when you think about it.  I've always wondered if Orwell was writing about Russia specifically as a communist who felt let down by the obvious result of the revolution or if at some level he was covering the problems with communism itself.  I can't find my copy so I can't even look it up.

Yesterday there was a news conference with Giuliani and others covering what has been found so far.  Republican observers weren't allowed to watch mail-in ballots be opened, much less see that they had been signed properly.  Democratic states had changed their laws right before the election and helped Democrat-run counties accomodat it but not Republican-run counties which is itself against the law.

Voters kept being told that their votes had already arrived and been counted.  The officials wouldn't check any defects, even backdating the votes so they'd be counted.  People didn't have to apply for mail-in ballots, they just had to send them in.  Votes for Biden went through the counting machines multiple times.  A lot of counties reported more votes than they had actual voters.  Then there's people who voted in states they didn't live in.

The company that produced these voting machines is from Venezuela and George Soros.  Even the votes were counted overseas.  The anomalies are too much to be anything other than fraud, and oddly enough they all happened in the middle of the night.  And notice how this only happens in Democrat-run states and cities.  Yet we're supposed to believe that Trump went all around campaigning multiple times a day, won more votes than he got four years ago and his party swept all the down-ballot elections, yet Biden didn't do any of that and won fair and square?

Yes, we know it was stolen, the question is what we're going to do about it.

Here's an article I haven't read yet, just glanced through.  Ain't my reading problems wonderful?  Anyway, it seems to be covering part of what might be done and the title probably gives you a clue.
□ [“Trump at the Rubicon"]

Mister Ed was always an Ayn Rand fan. A horse is A horse.

Democrat Tyrant Gavin Newsom Issues 10 PM Curfew For Most California Counties
November 19, 2020

Thousands of People Packed the Streets for Biden, and Now He Wants You to Cancel Thanksgiving
November 18, 2020

President Trump’s Executive Order from 2018 Covering Interference in US Elections By Foreign Entities Looks Relevant Today
November 18, 2020

Dunno how much I have to say at the moment.  I'm not happy today and it's been like every other day for the last several months which is like all of 2020 and several months before that.

□ [“Wonder Woman 1984 Will be Released to HBO Max on the Same Day As Its (Obligatory) Release to Theaters"]

Is the movie theater business coming to an end?  Obviously there's no point to going out to buy a ticket if you can just watch it at home and your cable bill stays the same.  The article says they'd spent $200 million to make the movie (presumably including marketing) and there's no way to get that back.  If they can't get by with Wonder Woman, what other movies have a chance?

And note this connects to the rumors about DC itself, that it's getting out of the regular comics business.  There was another article about it a few days ago which I thought of posting but decided it was just speculation, but it did have more detail about how DC would be adapting to a new format.  It's kind of tough to think Warner Bros wasn't planning this for a while and I doubt it started with the fake virus.  Taking down movies, comics, haven't heard anything about music concerts or theater but obviously those are out of the running these days.  Painting and books are the only artforms off the top of my head that could be created normally and how do you get them to customers?

Then there's sports dying off although I assume they'll come back before too long.

I've finally learned the meaning of life and it requires listening to Nirvana albums over and over. Just shoot me now.

There seems to be more public demonstrations from the right getting started.  I'm not paying close enough attention to follow where they all are or what they're all doing, but my main view is asking what they're worth.  Democrats can ignore protesters unless they see a political advantage and they're already making it clear that 'the people' aren't important.

I'm not complaining though, or at most I'll complain that this should have started two weeks ago.  If one were happening around where I live, I'd probably go.  I just don't see a point other than ignorable rage and maybe being a target for the leftists.  If that happens, then the fun will really get started.

□ [“Wisconsin, Like MI, GA, PA and VA, Caught Doing the ‘Drop and Roll’ Too — Once Biden Gained Lead with Massive Vote Dumps, The Rest of Votes All Possessed Same Biden to Trump Vote Ratio"]

It's starting to be said that Trump won a massive lead that was stolen but there's no way to know if that's true or just projection.  At this point it's impossible to know how many people really vote Democrat, how many just claim they do and how many are dead.  And that's the way the left wants it.

One thing that needs to be realized is that the left is working for multiple goals at the same time.  At some level they have to pretend to care what other people think and there's a need to elect "centrists."  Then they have to promote the actual left and drag everybody along with them by force.  They also have to make sure their leaders live in big mansions and are surrounded by men with guns.  Then they have to convince people who actually know how work is done to get involved since they stay as far away from that realm as possible.

This requires multiple layers of thought and decision which normal people don't have to bother with, then there's the need to keep track of preferred media and spend time on that.  It would be easy to say 'well they can't think for themselves' but even if true, that's still time and energy that can't go to any other use.  By all accounts, the right has been dropping a lot of media in the last few weeks.  I know I have and I haven't used much media in years anyway.

I received the proof copy of my next book today.  I promise that there's no chance whatsoever of my getting it edited and ordering a final copy before December 31, but if 2020 has given me nothing else of benefit, it's that I've come close to another year tying for first (along with 2017 and 2018) for the most books finished.

So now we know why Biden never bothered to campaign, it's not like he was bothering with real voters.

It's been run by Democrats for decades, they haven't had a Republican mayor since January 2, 1962.  As Joe Biden said, you're not black if you don't vote for him.  Those are votes they can throw out and blame Republicans for.

I'm trying to find a list of how long Democrats have run various states and cities.  Making one for Governors/Senators/Congressmen was easy and already disproves the notion that evil racists all left the Democratic Party and joined the Republicans in the 1960s.  I'd like to find records of state and city parties but I can't find much out of Wikipedia which only has some info.

Regardless, it's easy to find that Democrats have run for decades these cities full of riots claiming racism.  LBJ promised to keep blacks in their place for centuries and this is what he's done, now they're officially not black if they try to get out.  What's higher on the Democrat platform, gay marriage, abortion and gun control or blacks who disagree with all of that?  Democrats are trying to get the Muslim vote and they aren't in favor of any of that either.  The leaders get what they want, their voters just have to obey even against their own will.

Blacks have been the control experiment for leftist destruction of the family and attaching everyone to government income.  So why wouldn't they wouldn't they get their votes stolen and Democrats project the blame on Republicans?

Why did the chicken drink Rococo Coffee? They're sponsoring me, not some f*king chicken!

□ [Wolfgang Van Halen - “Distance" (official video)]

I totally forgot this was coming out.  He says his style is more 2000's "active rock" (whatever that means) than classic Van Halen.  That's certainly true.

I didn't even try to watch the video.  No interest whatsoever in seeing childhood footage.  The dialogue between the father and son at the beginning and end doesn't help.  I can certainly understand why it was done but I don't want to watch it.  I'm not remotely a big enough Van Halen fan to want to see any footage of Eddie and that goes double for Wolfie.

Musically there's nothing wrong with it other than the genre.  This is where pop music stopped even trying to have verses and choruses.  It just starts, keeps going and ends, nothing catchy or memorable.  The opening is decent but then the song just stays that way.  I'm actually planning to listen to it again to check if there was a real chorus or even a bridge, Nothing stands out, it all sounds the same going along.

The lyrics are pretty meaningless.  That's not a bad thing but there's nothing grabbing about them, in fact I have to work to pay any attention to them.  They're very repetitive which doesn't help.  The lyrics to "Jump" were meaningless but who cares, might as well listen to "Jump."  I guess there is a bridge but the guitar solo is just the same note over and over, eventually moving to another note, then another one.  Then the song just ends.

The whole thing just seems to be mechanical although that may just be because he's the sole instrumentalist so that's unfortunately a natural trend.  Compare the difference between Paul McCartney's solo "Maybe I'm Amazed" compared to the live version that became a well-deserved hit.  That's what a band does.  Prince is the only one I can think of off the top of my head who could be the sole musician on songs that was still catchy and popular.  [Obviously there are others.  Brian May's "Too Much Love Will Kill You" is one of my favorite songs ever, way better than the Queen version, But in both cases, they wrote actual songs and fortunately weren't doing the 2000s "active rock" style.

I honestly hoped it would be horrible.  At least that would be amusing.  It isn't horrible.  It'll probably be whatever qualifies as a hit these days but I assumed that would happen.  But it's not very good.  He could have played it on Van Halen's last tour and had a real guitarist and drummer, that might have been worth something.  Maybe he can do it for the reunion.