A little cream for your Cuppa Donald

From vox.com half a year ago:

"Faced with the prospect of an election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the smug will reach a fever pitch: six straight months of a sure thing, an opportunity to mock and scoff and ask, How could anybody vote for this guy? until a morning in November when they ask, What the fuck happened?

There is a smug style in American liberalism...predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really — but by the failure of half the country to know what's good for them".   (Article by Emmett Rensin)

LIV and HIV Voters in pictures.

Fanny pack or a Trapper Nelson?  Being a politics junkie doesn't make me smart, but it gives me a bigr pack to be proud of.  No matter how High an Information Voter I become, I'm still moved about by culture, hormones and habit, not logical discourse.

Low information voter
with fanny pack ?

High information voter
with Trapper Nelson.?

Republican voters put fixes for Obamacare, ISIS threat and government spending at the top. A wall, infrastructure and trade are near the bottom.

Morning Consult's poll recalibrates the story.  Top concerns for Republican voters were not the top stories during the election but Trump can reposition and close the gap.  That's the political level.  

A "Deep Values" analysis from a year earlier by Anne Sorock of The Frontier Lab goes to the cultural level.  She found the top issues were "sovereignty and elitism".

"True the Vote" If Trump only did one thing ....

“Today's voter lists,” writes former into-tech management consultant Paul Murphy, “are generally thought to include something like 1.8 million dead voters, 6.4 million illegals, 1.8 million ineligible felons, and perhaps 2.7 million people registered to vote in more than one state.”

Quoted from PJ Media

What's with Democrats looking heavenward on election night? Jumbotron weirdness.

Hillary's election night rally is strangely full of people looking to the heavens, hoping for news from above.  It's the Jumbotron at the ceiling but it sure looks strange, as if a space ship is landing to rescue them or a flaming voice of judgement is descending from the clouds.  (These are clips from a wonderful series at the Daily Mail which you should check out.)

Robots can even play better than you. A.I. will find a way into Canadian politics too.

Last week:  4.94 seconds.
This week:  "Robot solves a Rubik's cube in just 0.637 SECONDS"
What will we be doing when we aren't really needed to keep the wheels of industry rolling, the markets trading, dinner made and the dishes washed up?   When the cost of keeping people alive and well is a heritage DNA project?  When governing policy becomes semi-automated with feedback loops better than the hustings?

Wikipedia last week:

This week:

Dog in the kitchen jokes

National Post breakdown, Trump up.

Difficult to believe the echo chamber chutzpah at National Post. This headline was updated at 2:00 a.m. Wednesday:  "The Scale Of This Calamity Is Just Without Parallel".  The quote marks are the only relief.   In recent weeks the Post has been gratuituously astink over a man that Justin will soon be phoning to congratulate.

Will Obama Pull The Plug On Hillary?

If President Obama lets Hillary go down under indictment and the Democrats lose the presidency, has he lost very much?  His influence in the party will be intact.  Hers will be degraded.

The Ice Caps Melted and the Sea Rose Already. But Politics.

The disastrous flooding of populated lands by the sea has already happened, and in modern times.

Those beautiful cave painting from Altamira, Spain are thousands of years older than the great sea floods that destroyed Doggerland, Sundaland, Beringia and the land bridge from Prince Rupert to Haida Gwaii and placed them under hundreds of metres of brine.

Click to enlarge.

We live with the ice cap leftovers and have our panties in a knot about another few feet of flood.  This is quite likely to happen at some point but not when the King Canute types in science and politics  try to command the sea.

Tidy drawers = My wife amazed me.

The picture shows it:   Store folded fabric with the edge up, not the flat side up.  Towels and panties and tops fit snugly in one drawer.  At a glance you can see what's there.  No shuffling through the pile which, for me, always means messing stuff up.  She's getting rid of two dressers.

I'll be back when Trump is IN

I haven't had the heart to blog regularly from a battlefield of microaggressions, taking-the-knee, mattress carrying, selfie-loving,  the-science-is-settled, what-difference-does-it-make retreats from civilization, courage and humanity.  I'l be back when Trump is IN and commoners can't point out the Emperor has no clothes.  Meanwhile, Twitter, Facebook, Google and all the primary media are working to get Clinton in.  My desktop is this cartoon:

Hillary's Vast Conspiracy

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has morphed into the Vast Russian - Left Wing - Right Wing Conspiracy against her.  Everything but the kitchen sink takes blame.
Russians are trying to defeat her with Wikileaks.
The Left Wing is trying to undo her.  ("Lock her up" chants coming from the left)
And the old standby, Right Wing Conspiracy is still hard at work.

Media Democrats can't watch a movie that pans their party.

Rotten Tomatoes ratings for D'Souza's "Hillary's America" is screaming evidence that the media are "Democratic Operatives With Bylines".
Audience Score: 83%
Critics Score:  5%

Dallas is the Preamble when Laws Exempt Clintons.

In a war zone, besides BLM guns and ISIS bombs you get every grievance group, crook, zealot and political operative who sees an advantage.  When the leaders of civil society lose the respect of the governed,  power devolves to those who will take it.


From Michael Yon's despatch:        

"Veterans .. view this news cycle through a different glass.  After things truly began to spin out of control in (Iraq), many people were fighting for vastly different reasons. The situation was difficult to track even for dedicated analysts. .. The always-there lunatic fringe is uncorked. .. The actions of a serial killer look like the work of an insurgent or group. Criminality skyrockets, and what would earlier have been seen as just a bank robbery looks like part of a movement.  ... They will simultaneously fight the government while fighting each other. They inevitably have internal disputes. Wars allow criminals and the insane to fulfill their vast potential.  Young men with guns, no rules, and a sense of divine authority, are the most dangerous animals on earth. 

In the U.S., this could translate into the normal unleashing of the insane, of the criminal elements, and people who are merely fighting “the man,” ethnic divides of many sorts — white and black is only a subset — religious, and other motivations ranging from environmental terrorism, anti-globalism, save the dolphins, save the whales, pro-life, anti-Semitism, and endless sorts of backwater motivations that become wrapped in violence. ... All this white noise is perfect breeding ground for militant Islam, and anti-Islamic violence also no doubt would raise its head. If violence increases to high levels, National Guard will not save the cities. They will be pop up targets.    The BLM movement has its own agenda and, though not baseless, is itself on the verge of terrorism. Meanwhile, a completely different sort of people see the FBI as a puppet for the Clintons and other “elites” who are not just above the law, they are the law. 

The biggest problem at hand is straightforward: millions of Americans see injustice, and disrespect for the population, coming from the government.  Different sorts of people arrive at this conclusion from different roads. BLM comes at it from a racist agenda while others are tired of seeing the .1% sailing above the laws that are made for the 99.9%."

Read the full article and browse his sites.

CUPW Modernizes Business Banking In Canada

Our shop has been flooded with requests for on-line pay since CUPW threatened to strike and the Crown Corporation went for 72 hour lock-out notice.  We will send and receive payment over the wires for more stuff than ever before.  Thank you guys for the nudge to get with the new technology. We will never go back.

Glad to hear you guys are making a few bucks on small packet delivery.  Hope it's enough to protect those jobs and pensions.

Mark Twain on BREXIT and GLOBAL WARMING

'If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.'

BIG PICTURE

AND THE LITTLE PICTURE

THE BIG PICTURE

AND THE LITTLE PICTURE

h/t smalldeadanimals

PTSD from the reporter who fired an AR15.

Found at Powerline.

To Die Is To Run Out Of Fuel

Dying is not a sacred duty.  Not all things die (or have sex).  Dying, like sex,  is an evolutionary tool to give a competitive renewal edge to our species.  Dying is running out of fuel.   Re-fuel and live a long time.  It's not immoral, just an opportunity.   Refuelling means cleaning up protein tangles on neurons, refreshing heart muscle with our own stem cells,  re-growing flexible clear eyeballs, taking DNA tweaks. It also means having high integrity data backups.   If you are present holographically in more than one location with avatars and sensing some things as if part of your own body, just who the heck are you, anyway?  And if part goes down, are you still there?      We already know that parts of our body can be gone without the "This is me" part disappearing.  Limbs gone or paralyzed don't stop you from saying "I am".  An ear can go, both eyes can go, the lower jaw can go, but the experience of "I" continues.   Add back in sensations that will be coming in from avatars at remote places where people interact with you.  What have you got?  This question is coming up with uncomfortable answers soon.

I should have taken the DNA tweak package
on my 120th birthday.

Death has been treated like religion because up until now you could count on it, plan your life around it, and couldn't skip it.  I think it's becoming optional for some, to be replaced by a balance sheet of how much stuff you have in the world that's working and how much is not.

Our Robot Overlords

Robots and AI networks will be making battlefield calls:

"Bots will enable the automation of terrorism (a truly transformational development) ..... When any bot learns something, it can then share that "understanding" with every other bot connected to the cloud".  From John Robb (CIA consultant on future weapon systems) at Global Guerillas.

Think about it.  When one device learns a tactic, they all learn it.  A drone can fly into the soccer stadium and spray fake poison powder to stampede the crowd, or it can set off real explosives next to the head of a presidential candidate at the mike.  We can hack our enemies AI defence and teach all devices to bow and pray to Allah instead of firing a weapon when attacked.  This ain't Star Wars.  Some of it is off-the-shelf technology you can order from amazon.  It just hasn't been weaponized yet.  To own and defend The Cloud is to own the high ground.