Green and yellow parrot teams play basketball. Change my mind!

Genetically engineered corn has eliminated an insecticide.

 So, are you okay with less insect poison and not okay with more corn with edited DNA? Check out the chart. BT corn (resistant by design to a specific bacteria) is the main maize grown now and all that insect poison has disappeared. 

 Item "B" in the picture from Nature compares BT and non-BT resistant corn.

The chart on insecticide use is from Watts Up With That.
The insecticide disappears from the data in 2010.

Canadians saving stimulus money: Wealth redistributed from government to individuals!

 Canadians put aside record amounts of cash this year, thanks to government.  Centralized money was redistributed and not immediately wasted, an astonishing turn of events.   Comment from the National Post source:  "Government transfers were actually larger than the amount of money lost in the labour market"  and  "it’s not unthinkable that some of this money went to people that didn’t need it" and "High savings rates are in turn expected to put a damper on Canada’s economic recovery".  Businesses as well as individuals have set aside some extra cash. Set asides may be higher as cash accounts but not investment accounts were tallied.

Make room for ignorance: Unknown unknowns.

 "A library should include as much of what you do not know as your means allow". Quoted here.
This is in the same spirit as the Feynman quote heading this blog:  "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.".    At the link is another pointed quotation:  

“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.”  — Lincoln Steffens

To add one more layer to this ham sandwich before you bite down, remember Donald Rumsfeld's apothegm:  

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones".

Count your blessings

 We live with abundance.  Think of this tale from a Mennonite village in the Crimea in the early 1900's.  The women kept their laying hens in a shared shelterand every night put a finger up their hens to agree on who got an egg next day and who did not.  A bit of yarn was tied to the leg of each hen in lay. Told me by a woman whose mother had hens there.

World catching fire with blind, attractive life behind it.
A glimpse of this interregnum in the USA, and here too.

As a hexagram we'd read war and portent of war, and a beauty, if we can keep it.

 

 

Dresden WW2 after bombing

The worst hit part of Dresden after the firestorm started by bombing in WW2.  Think of the crisped corpses in thousands, formerly neighbours.

 

Land values across the US

 Nationwide US data for land assessment recently came available.  Think of it as cost per acre or per lot.   Here' s  a map. This was presented in Watts Up With That  as a metric for comparing costs of conservation plans.  It also overlaps the distribution of democrat (red) and republican (green) voters. The author was surprised that his data was more predictive of land transaction costs than the aggregate of local assessor numbers.

 

Masculinity in the home is good for kids

 

Why?

 

“Why” is downstream from “Is”.
And I conclude that meaning is not intrinsic to life.
It is extrinsic, we add it.

What brings the thought?
How I loved my sweetheart, now gone.
She stopped.
My life is richer for loving her now
though she died.

Bogus reporting about Fox Corp "tumbling" 6%. See stock chart.

 Yes, Fox News is bleeding viewers but a story about Fox Corp tumbling 6% right after the election is misleading, kind of bogus.   It was much higher last winter before the Covid collapse.  The pre-election and post-election numbers hardly differ.

Who owns Dominion Voting Systems? DUCKDUCKGO vs GOOGLE

 This appalling contrast isn't about nudging, it's about outright deception and misdirection.  I typed "Who owns Dominion Voting Machines" into Google and DuckDuckGo and was shocked.  DuckDuckGo takes a stab at answering the question and Google doesn't even bother with the question but launches straight into "Nothing to see here!" stories about fraud.  Google bizarrely suggests that "Wo owns" might be a better search than "Who owns".                    (No one seems to have a fair answer at the moment.  Soros as owner appears to be a head fake, Feinstein's husband as a major owner may not be,  Pelosi family involvement may be small and indirect.)

Two Americas, stupefyingly different.

I'm with the deplorables.   Economy is tops, climate change isn't, racism is way down the list and Covid politicans are worse than the infection.   The differences noted below are statistically like night and day. Quoted from Spiked:

"Indeed, the split of Biden and Trump voters on issues is striking, too. Of the voters who think the economy and jobs is the most important issue, the vast majority are Trump supporters: 81 per cent compared with just 16 per cent of Biden supporters. Of the voters who think racism is the most important issue, 78 per cent were Biden supporters and just 19 per cent were Trump supporters. And of the voters who think climate change is the most important issue, 86 per cent were Biden supporters and just 11 per cent were Trump supporters. On Covid, 83 per cent of Biden supporters said it is ‘not under control at all’, while just 15 per cent of Trump voters said the same thing."

"New York, totally Democratic, had no problem counting its votes. Texas, totally Republican, had no problem counting its votes." Vodkapundit

From Vodkapundit:

"New York, totally Democratic, had no problem counting its votes.Texas, totally Republican, had no problem counting its votes. It was the same story in every deep Red or Deep Blue state, regardless of size.

The only states that couldn’t seem to count their ballots on time, the only states where the allegedly dead rise to vote, the only states where turnout in places apparently exceeded the number of registered voters, the only states reported by whistleblowers for ignoring their own laws on accepting mail-in ballots, the only states that keep finding substantial numbers of new ballots, the only states with reports of substantial numbers of destroyed or lost ballots, the only states where we see reports of thousands upon thousands of ballots that are marked only for Joe Biden and no other candidates in any other race…  …all of these things are happening only in states where the outcome was ever in doubt.   And — oh, yeah, this last bit seems germane — all these antics seem to be happening only in Democrat-run cities in these swing states."

Stephen Green at Vodkapundit also comments: "What does it take to get the press to notice an election being stolen in broad daylight?    Answer: A new press."

It's not that the presidential race wasn't close.  It was.  The vote counters in those unnamed cities include a criminal class.

Masks are used to identify your tribe.

 

There are places you must wear masks to receive service or avoid punishment.  However, when you see masked people driving and cycling about and walking by themselves because they want to, you are being told what tribe they belong to and probably who they will vote for too.

You know who these people identify with.

Simple math puts TRUMP first for Nov 3 2020

 In 2016 Trump won.
What changed since then?
The Never-Trumpers left at the time but I haven't heard of new leavers since 2016.
I have heard of no Trump voters who are turning their backs on him.

The people who voted Trump last time are out in boat and car parades, ready to vote for Trump again.
I read stories about people who held their nose and voted Trump in 2016 but will crawl over broken glass to vote for him this time.
There's a small movement of people out of the Democrat fold under the flag "Walk Away".
A few more states have purged voter rolls of dead or merely departed voters, a few whom were somehow voting, and largely voting Democrat.
There's a definite increase in support from Black Americans.
There seem to be longer lines to vote this time and the enthusiasm factor seems to be mostly Republican, or more correctly, "Trump".

Whatever the final tally for the 2020 election, there will be more Trump voters this time than 2016.
Last time the polls were out a lot but at the last minute got better for Trump.
This time the polls are out even more and at the last minute are getting better for Trump.
For the run-up, pollsters have their elbow on the scales for their preferred party, Democrat.
For the showdown, pollsters protect their reputation by being more truthy at the last minute.
The numbers have been TRUMP for some time, despite the Covid shock.

And wins the popular vote.

 

COVID Cases vs Deaths, 6 million database

From issuesinsights.com, two of the charts.  You already knew deaths are almost all old people and sick ones at that.  What you haven't seen is that almost all "cases" are young and middle-aged .  Those anxious old folks are the least likely to catch COVID.