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Double standards are the worst.

One flag is enough.

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Blanche: Herb, if you don't stop snoring, I'm going to toss you out on your ear!

Herb: Does it upset you that much?

Blanche: Not just me, the entire congregation.

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I'm waiting for Pfizer and Moderna to seek F.D.A. approval for vaccine dart guns.

Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich now says he will get the COVID vaccine after initially refusing. Had he stuck to his guns, he would have become the first Cougar to ever turn down a shot of anything.

32% of people say they are really good at being humble. I'm great at it!

Tristan Thompson has declared his love for Khloe Kardashian after their breakup. I'm no expert, but I think he's got those out of order.

An octopus at a Florida aquarium has learned how to paint using his tentacles. You'd think with 8 of them going at one time, it shouldn't take him long to do a house.

A 1981 Ford Escort Ghia that Prince Charles gave to Princess Diana sold at auction this week for $72,000. The fact he gave her a Ford Escort is a pretty telling sign about their marriage.

Bill Cosby's conviction was thrown out by a Pennsylvania court. Afterwards drinks were on him, yet most everyone passed.

A new study says that lack of sleep causes dementia and an early death. After hearing that yesterday, I was up all night.

33% of men say that torturing their siblings in the back seat is their fondest road trip memory as a child.

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Mr. Fienstein called the FM radio station and said "I've found a wallet with $400, a credit card and an ID card belonging to Mr. Smith, No.13,Halls Rd, Jackson, TN."
To which the radio jockey says " Oh, how honest. So you want his wallet returned back to him?"

Mr. Fieinstein says "NO... I just wanted you to play a sad song for him".

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You matter.

Until you multiply yourself by the square of the speed of light.

Then you energy.

Quote of the Times;
“One thing is for certain, China didn't call General Milley to warn us about the China virus.” – Bolen

Link of the Times;
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/pandemic-border-biden-haiti/

Issue of the Times;
No Racism? No Problem! College Racial Hoaxes Are Back by Kevin Downey Jr.

Don’t you just hate it when there is so little racism that you have to fake it?

The latest bogus racism looks a lot like all the other fake racism: anti-black graffiti, swastikas, and perhaps a noose, followed by local outrage and lots of virtue signaling. The culprit is arrested and liberals try to hide the vandal’s identity because… awww shucks, you know why.

Fake Racism

The recent “racist” attack at Emory University is no different. Graffiti depicting racial epithets was discovered near where two black women work, graffiti depicting a swastika was found near the office of a Jewish guy, and some vending machines were vandalized.

Outrage

Cue up the outrage. Emory University released a statement after the “attack” on their Autism Center:

These acts of racism and antisemitism are painful for all of us at the EAC and in the Emory community. They will not be tolerated and every effort will be made to bring the perpetrators to justice. Our priority remains the wellbeing and safety of our faculty, staff, learners, patients and their families, and upholding our values and Emory’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

“Diversity, equity and inclusion” - the three buzzwords of the left - are about to become important.

Arrest

Not surprisingly, the “bigot” isn’t a white goober in a MAGA hat. The culprit is a part-time, temporary Emory employee, who happens to be a middle-aged black man named Roy Lee Gordon, Jr. He was arrested last week and was somehow only charged with burglary in the second degree. I guess painting a swastika is no longer considered a hate crime.

Emory released the name of the offender but no information on Gordon’s race. So much for diversity, equity and inclusion. If their “priority remains the wellbeing and safety of our faculty, staff, learners, patients and their families,” why not tell the students and faculty there isn’t a racist prowling the campus after all?

A similar “attack” occurred at Albion College in Michigan. “KKK” graffiti and outrage. Roughly 450 virtue-signaling students and faculty marched against the “racism” found on campus and many boycotted classes.

Same old, same old: A black student was busted and the school didn’t mention the race of the criminal.

Earlier today, we identified the individual responsible for the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in Mitchell Towers. The student, who was acting alone, acknowledged their responsibility for these incidents. (1/5)
— Albion College (@albioncollege) April 7, 2021

A 17-year-old BLM activist and student at Viterbo University set fire to her own dorm. At first, she claimed it was yet another racist attack against her. She later admitted to police that she set the fire herself, but pleaded not guilty in court. The school’s president released a statement saying that the police had a person of interest, and that that person would no longer be a part of the Viterbo community, but failed to even name the student.

A black student at Wayne State University in Detroit egged her own door, hoping to snag a leadership role at the school’s Black Student Union.

A letter full of racial hatred was recently sent to black student groups as the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The letter, full of grammatical errors, reads like a KKK manifesto.

This racist email was sent to Black-centered student groups at @UMassAmherst. The increase in anti-Black sentiments at the college is repulsive. Students of color deserve to feel safe on their campus! The administration MUST find who is responsible and hold them accountable NOW!
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) September 25, 2021

It’s too soon to say whether or not this is yet another hoax, but I will be watching for it at https://fakehatecrimes.org/

News of the Times;
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/09/27/massachusetts-state-police-covid-vaccine-mandate-resignations/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nc-hospital-system-fires-about-175-workers-in-one-of-the-largest-ever-mass-terminations-due-to-a-vaccine-mandate/ar-AAOUXBa

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/09/22/hot-takes-aclu-rightfully-ripped-to-shreds-after-butchering-an-rbg-quote-to-omit-women-n446772

https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-billionaires-hoard-wealth/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/not-making-headlines-az-audit-not-find-identity-86391-voters-dont-appear-exist-73-8-democrat-no-party-affiliation/

https://wendyrogers.org/41-legislators-from-multiple-states-write-a-letter-to-the-american-people-calling-for-a-50-state-audit-decertification-where-appropriate-and-possible-convening-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-wanted-2-million-to-help-libya-unfreeze-its-assets-while-joe-biden-was-vp-report

https://spectator.org/arctic-ice-coverage-is-up-substantially/

https://pjmedia.com/culture/stacey-lennox/2021/09/23/voting-with-their-feet-parents-taking-their-kids-out-of-public-schools-in-astounding-numbers-n1480656

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/09/28/japan-to-lift-all-covid-restrictions-n419019

https://www.thecollegefix.com/half-of-college-students-fear-expressing-ideas-in-the-classrooms-survey/

https://vdare.com/articles/kenn-gividen-woke-justice-blacks-allowed-to-murder-whites-now

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/after-mandating-masks-outdoors-oregons-active-covid-19-cases-increased-73-percent/

https://trendingpolitics.com/sickening-gofundme-nukes-fundraiser-for-asu-students-who-were-viciously-attacked-for-simply-being-white/

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-25-covid-hospitalizations-due-to-other-causes.html
Third?
Why did Bilbo Baggins live for so long?

Because old Hobbits die hard...

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Trump should never have said; "sh!t hole countries."

The correct term is "turd world countries."

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A 15 year old boy was at the center of a Dallas County courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulation requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree possible.

The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried and said that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.

After two recesses to check legal references and confer with the child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Detroit Lions, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.

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In Scotland, they are so mean with money that every home has double glazing installed.

So their kids can't hear the ice cream truck.

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I was sitting on the toilet, angry and late for work.

Thinking to myself, "I don't have time for this sh!t!".

Quote of the Times;
Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don’t like. – Harvey

Link of the Times;
https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/24/over-3000-doctors-and-scientists-sign-declaration-accusing-covid-policy-makers-of-crimes-against-humanity/

Issue of the Times;
The Afghanistization of America by Victor Davis Hanson

We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.

The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength. It still produces more goods and services than any other nation—China included, which has a population over four times as large. Its fuel and food industries are globally preeminent, as are its graduate science, computer, engineering, medical, and technology university programs. Its constitution is the oldest of current free nations. And the U.S. military is by far the best funded in the world. And yet something has gone terribly wrong within America, from the southern border to Afghanistan.

The inexplicable in Afghanistan—surrendering Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night, abandoning tens of billions of dollars of military equipment to the Taliban, and forsaking both trapped Americans and loyalist Afghans—has now become the new Biden model of inattention and incompetence.

Or to put it another way, when we seek to implant our culture abroad, do we instead come to emulate what we are trying to change?

COVID Chaos

Take COVID-19. Joe Biden in 2020 (along with Kamala Harris) trashed Trump’s impending Operation Warp Speed vaccinations. Then, after inauguration, Biden falsely claimed no one had been vaccinated until his ascension (in fact, 1million a day were being vaccinated before he assumed office). Then again, Biden claimed ad nauseam that he didn’t believe in mandates to force the new and largely experimental vaccinations on the public. Then, once more, he promised that they were so effective and so many Americans had received vaccines that by July 4 the country would return to a virtual pre-COVID normality.

Then came the delta variant and his self-created disaster in Afghanistan.

To divert his attention away from the Afghan morass, Biden weirdly focused on an equally confused new presidential COVID-19 mandate, seeking to subject federal employees, soldiers, and employees of larger firms to mandatory vaccinations—right as the contagious delta variant seemed to be slowly tapering off, given the millions who have either been vaxxed, have developed natural immunity, or both.

Consider other paradoxes. American citizens must be vaccinated, but not the forecasted 2 million noncitizens expected to cross the southern border illegally into the United States over the current fiscal year. Soldiers who bravely helped more than 100,000 Afghan refugees escape must be vaccinated, but not the unvetted foreign nationals from a premodern country?

Scientists now are convinced naturally acquired COVID-19 immunity from a previous infection likely provides longer and better protection than does any of the current vaccinations.

Yet those who suffered COVID-19, and now have antibodies and other natural defenses, must likewise be vaccinated. That anomaly raises the obvious logical absurdities: will those with vaccinations—in reciprocal fashion—be forced to be exposed to the virus to obtain additional and superior natural immunity, given the Biden logic of the need for both acquired and vaccinated immunity?

Tribal Lands

We have Afghanistanized the border as well, turning the United States into a pre-state whose badlands borders are absolutely porous and fluid. There is no audit of newcomers, no vaccinations required, no COVID-19 tests—none of the requirements that millions of citizens must meet either entering the United States or working at their jobs. Our Bagram abandonment is matched by abruptly abandoning the border wall in mid-course.

Yet where the barrier exists, there is some order; where Joe Biden abandoned the wall, there is a veritable stampede of illegal migration.

Coups, Juntas and Such

Third-World countries suffer military coups when unelected top brass and caudillos often insidiously take control of the country’s governance in slow-motion fashion. The latest Bob Woodward “I heard,” “they say,” and “sources reveal” mythography now claims that General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, discussed separating an elected commander-in-chief from control of the military. Woodward and co-author Robert Costa also assert that Milley promised his Chinese Communist military counterpart that he would tip off the People’s Liberation Army of any planned U.S. aggressive action—an odd paranoia when Donald Trump, of the last five presidents, has proved the most reluctant to send U.S. troops into harm’s way.

If that bizarre assertion is true, Milley himself might have essentially risked starting a war by eroding U.S. deterrence in apprising an enemy of perceived internal instability inside the executive branch, and the lack of a unified command. (So, Woodward wrote: “‘General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be okay,’ Milley said. ‘We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.’ Milley then added, ‘If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.’”)

More germanely, when Milley called in senior officers and laid down his own operational directives concerning nuclear weapons, he was clearly violating the law as established and strengthened in 1947, 1953, and 1986 that clearly states the Joint Chiefs are advisors to the president and are not in the chain of command and are to be bypassed, at least operationally, by the president.

The commander in chief sets policy. And if it requires the use of force, he directs the secretary of defense to relay presidential orders to the relevant theater commanders. Milley had no authority to discuss changing nuclear procedures, much less to convey a smear to an enemy that his commander in chief was non compos mentis.

Milley has been reduced to a caricature of a caricature right out of “Dr. Strangelove”—and is himself a danger to national security. After Milley’s summer 2020 virtue-signaling “apology” for alleged presidential photo-op misbehavior (found to be completely false by the interior department’s inspector general); after leaked news reports that Milley considered resignation (promises, promises) to signal his anger at Trump in summer 2020; after his dismissal of the 120 days of rioting, 28 deaths, 14,000 arrests, and $2 billion in damage as mere “penny packet protests”; after his “white rage” blathering before Congress; after the collapse of the U.S. military command in Kabul; and after his premature and hasty assessment of a U.S. drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians as “righteous,” Woodward’s sensationalism may not sound as impossible as his usual fare.

Milley should either deny the Woodward charges and demand a real apology or resign immediately. He has violated the law governing the chain of command, misused his office of chairman of the Joint Chiefs, politicized the military, proved inept in his military judgment and advice, and may well have committed a felony in revealing to a hostile military leader that the United States was, in his opinion, in a crisis mode.

Yet, Milley did not act in isolation. Where did this low-bar Pentagon coup talk originate? And who are those responsible for creating a culture in which unelected current and retired military officers, sworn to uphold the constitutional order and the law of civilian control of the military, believe that they can arbitrarily declare an elected president either incompetent or criminal—and thus subject to their own renegade sort of freelancing justice?

As a footnote, remember that after little more than a week of the Trump presidency, Rosa Brooks, an Obama-era Pentagon appointee, published in Foreign Policy various ways to remove the newly inaugurated president. Among those mentioned was a military coup, in which top officers were to collude to obstruct a presidential order, on the basis of their own perceptions of a lack of presidential rectitude or competence.

We note additionally that over a dozen high-ranking retired generals and admirals have serially violated the uniform code of military justice in demonizing publicly their commander in chief with the worst sort of smears and slanders. And they have done so with complete exemption and in mockery of the very code they have sworn to abide.

Two retired army officers, colonels John Nagl and Paul Yingling, on the eve of the 2020 election, urged Milley to order U.S. army forces to remove Trump from office if in their opinion he obstructed the results of the election—superseding in effect a president’s elected powers as well as those constitutional checks and balances of the legislative and judicial branches upon him.

We know that these were all partisan and not principled concerns about an alleged non compos mentis president, because none of these same outspoken “Seven Days in May” generals have similarly violated the military code by negatively commenting publicly on the current dangerous cognitive decline of Joe Biden and the real national security dangers of his impairment, as evidenced by the disastrous skedaddle from Afghanistan and often inability to speak coherently or remember key names and places.

In short, is our new freelancing and partisan military also in the process of becoming Afghanized—too many of its leadership electively appealing to pseudo-higher principles to contextualize violating the Constitution of the United States and, sadly, too many trying to reflect the general woke landscape of the corporate board to which so many have retired? Like tribal warlords, our top brass simply do as they please, and then message to us “so what are you going to do about it?”

The Constitution as Construct

How paradoxical that the United States has sent teams of constitutional specialists to Iraq and Afghanistan to help tribal societies to draft legal, ordered, and sustainable Western consensual government charters that are not subject to the whims of particular tribes and parties. Yet America itself is descending in the exact opposite direction.

Suddenly in 2021 America, if ancient consensual rules, customs, and constitutional mandates do not facilitate and advance the progressive project, then by all means they must end—by a mere one vote in the Senate. It is as if the centuries of our history, the Constitution, and the logic of the founders were analogous to a shouting match among a squabbling Taliban tribal council of elders.

Junk the 233-year-old Electoral College and the constitutional directive to the states to assume primary responsibilities in establishing voting procedures in national elections. End the 180-year-old Senate filibuster. Do away with the now bothersome 150-year nine-justice Supreme Court. And scrap the 60-year-old tradition of a 50-state union.

Impeachment was intended by the founders as a rare reset of the executive branch in extremis. Now it is to be a pro formaattack on the president in his first term by the opposite party as soon as it gains control of the House—without a special counsel, without witnesses and cross-examinations, without any specific high crimes and misdemeanors or bribery and treason charges. And why not from now on impeach a president twice within a year—or try him in the Senate when he is out of office as a private citizen?

When private citizen Joe Biden is retired from the presidency, will his political enemies dig up his sketchy IRS records alleging that he never paid income taxes on the “big guy’s” “10 percent” of the income from the Hunter Biden money machine?

American Tribes

We may think virtue-signaling pride flags, gender studies, and George Floyd murals in Kabul remind the world of our postmodern sophistication. Yet, in truth, we are becoming far more like Afghanistan in the current tribalization of America—where tribal, racial, and ethnic loyalties are now essential to an American’s primary identity and loyalty—than we were ever able to make Afghanistan like us.

When we read leftist heartthrob Ibram X. Kendi’s endorsement of overt racial discrimination or academic and media obsessions with a supposed near-satanic “whiteness,” or the current fixations on skin color and first loyalties to those who share superficial racial affinities, then we are not much different from the Afghan tribalists. We in America apparently have decided the warring badlands of the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks have their advantages over a racially blind, consensual republic. They are the model to us, not us of the now-discredited melting pot to them.

How sad in our blinkered arrogance that we go across the globe to the tribal Third World to teach the impoverished a supposedly preferrable culture and politics, while at home we are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.

News of the Times;
https://iotwreport.com/norway-reclassifies-covid-19-no-more-dangerous-than-ordinary-flu/

https://noqreport.com/2021/09/25/the-arizona-audit-did-not-prove-joe-biden-won-and-the-reason-that-narrative-exists-should-infuriate-you/

https://rsbnetwork.com/news/nearly-400000-voter-identities-processed-in-arizona-have-no-match-with-social-security-administration/

https://lampshadesandsoap.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/burned-alive-covered-in-excrement-starved-driven-to-insanity-how-the-allies-created-the-greatest-german-refugee-crisis-for-women-children-2-million-died-without-mercy/

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/25/pinkerton-the-mask-comes-off-in-a-two-tier-society-where-theres-one-rule-for-elites-and-another-for-the-rest-of-us/

https://cleverjourneys.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/christianity-growth-during-trump-presidency-continues-despite-socialist-liberal-agenda/?preview=true

https://dailyreportusa.com/a-doctor-in-idaho-claims-that-those-who-have-been-vaccinated-for-covid-have-a-20-fold-increase-in-cancer/

https://nationalfile.com/nicki-minaj-open-your-fking-eyes-to-covid-censorship-twitter-ban-is-making-me-think-that-theres-something-bigger-going-on/

https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-is-using-wokeism-to-erode-american-democracy-author-says_4002348.html

https://trendingpolitics.com/fbi-undercover-agent-on-january-6-received-text-that-confirms-no-trump-led-plot-to-overturn-2020-election-knab/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/satans-power-defeated-tonight-high-school-football-team-defies-godless-school-board-gathers-team-prayer-field-following-game-video/

https://reason.com/2021/09/22/bureaucrats-and-politicians-seem-determined-to-cripple-a-lifesaving-alternative-to-smoking/

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/09/22/another-russian-ransomware-attack-on-americas-food-supply-because-nobody-takes-biden-seriously-n1480663

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/jet_blue_passenger_chokes_flight_attendant_storms_cockpit_but_most_media_most_neglect_to_mention_he_shouted_allah_as_he_attempted_to_hijack_the_plane.html

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hhs-child-uac-migrant/2021/09/22/id/1037552/
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I tried one of those "Try Not To Laugh" challenges, but barely made it halfway before cracking up.

I guess you could say... I fought the LOL, and the LOL won.

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Hired a handy man and gave him a list.

When I got home, only #1, 3 & 5 were done.

Turns out, he only does odd jobs.

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Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a masterpiece of military strategy, yet General Mark A. Milley says he can make it even better. Milley believes the book needs to be updated to integrate all the advancements America's modern military has made in military tactics and strategy. To that end, he's updating several of Sun Tzu's famous paradigms:

"If you think you might attack an enemy, pick up the phone and give 'em a heads up. It's only fair."

"You have to be careful not to surprise your enemy. They really don't like it."

"Treason is not treason if it is the lesser of two treasons."

"Know thy pronouns, and know thy enemy's pronouns."

"The supreme art of war is to surrender to your enemy without fighting."

“All war is white rage.”

"If thy commanding officer sends mean tweets, thou need not follow orders or the chain of command."

"The enemy of my friend is my friend."

“Keep your friends close and your enemies on speed dial.”

“You cannot betray the one to which you were never loyal.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for China.”

"When retreating, leave most of thy armaments behind so you know what you'll be up against next time."

"Chinese bros before American hoes."

"He who turns on bad orange man gets big book deal."

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I tried to make a 'fancy' sauce last night at dinner, I mixed vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide,

Sadly, all I managed was making myself an Absolut laughing stock!

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What should you do when nobody laughs at your science jokes?

Keep trying until you get a reaction.

Quote of the Times;
The American Dream has turned into a nightmare under President Biden and the radical Democrats. They have declared war against capitalism, thumbed their noses at the Constitution, and empowered our enemies abroad. Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian. - Governor Henry McMaster

Link of the Times;
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/study-miscarriage-rate-covid-vaccine

Issue of the Times;
Here's How to Tell Within 5 Minutes If Someone Isn't as Smart as They Think by Jeff Haden

Science says people who do one thing tend to be less intelligent. And less competent.

I ordered a turkey sandwich and asked for double meat. The guy behind me said, "You shouldn't eat meat." I turned and shrugged.

"Seriously," he said, his voice getting louder. "Meat is bad for you."

"Maybe so," I said. "But I like meat."

Evidently that was not the right response. "A friend turned me on to a vegan diet," he said. "Only fools eat meat. Meat is terrible for you. There's not a single reason to eat meat. The science is irrefutable." Then he paused and moved closer, narrowing his eyes to stare intently into mine.

"It's changed my life," he said.

"I'm not sure all meat is bad," I said. "But that's really cool how being a vegan has worked out for you. How long have you been doing it?"

"This is my second day," he said.

Ah.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

His certainty provides a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a type of cognitive bias described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in which people believe they're smarter and more skilled than they actually are. Combine a lack of self-awareness with low cognitive ability and boom: You overestimate your own intelligence and competence.

As Dunning, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, says, "if you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent. The skills you need to produce the right answer are the very same skills you need to recognize the right answer."

As Bertrand Russell said, "one of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."

Or as my grandfather said, "the dumber you are, the more you think you know."

(On the flip side, people with high ability tend to underestimate how good they are. High-ability individuals tend to underrate their relative competence, and at the same time assume that tasks that are easy for them are just as easy for other people.)

But I shouldn't be too hard on the gentleman who had just adopted a vegan diet. I once spent 20 minutes trying to convince a motorcycle mechanic my bike handled poorly because of issues like spring rate and steering head angle and frame height, only to learn I had unknowingly turned my rear shock's rebound damping to its lowest setting.

Wildly overestimating my knowledge made me a D-K.

We all know people who do the same. They take a position and then proclaim and bluster and pontificate while totally disregarding differing opinions or points of view. They know they're right -- and they want you to know they're right.

Their behavior isn't an indication of intelligence, though. It's the classic sign of a D-K.

Wisdom Is Never Found in Certainty

As Jeff Bezos says, "the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking."

That's because wisdom isn't found in certainty. Wisdom is knowing that while you might know a lot, there's also a lot you don't know. Wisdom is trying to find out what is right rather than trying to be right. Wisdom is realizing when you're wrong, and backing down graciously.

Don't be afraid to be wrong. Don't be afraid to admit you don't have all the answers. Don't be afraid to say "I think" instead of "I know."

As my Inc. colleague Jessica Stillman says, "next time you're trying to determine if someone is actually super smart or simply bluffing, don't ask whether they're always right. Instead, ask when was the last time they changed their opinion. If they can't name lots of times they were wrong, they're probably not as smart as they want to appear."

Which means they're probably a D-K.

News of the Times;
https://fee.org/articles/4-ways-americans-are-fighting-back-against-anti-science-covid-restrictions/

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/federal-govt-whistleblower-goes-public-with-secret-recordings-government/

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/09/20/26_governors_seek_meeting_with_biden_over_border_surge_146434.html

https://www.rt.com/usa/535454-carlson-vaccine-army-takeover-covid19/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-footage-lawsuit-release-insurrection

https://vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-are-the-us-and-china-stumbling-toward-an-islands-war

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/09/14/as-biden-says-islam-is-peaceful-d-c-imam-calls-for-jihad-n1478681

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkrU23DG5A

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-chair-powell-owned-least-15-million-municipal-bonds-ones-fed-bailed-out-2020

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/09/20/new-york-times-credits-jill-biden-as-a-doctor-but-attempted-to-hide-that-rand-paul-actually-is-one-n445757

https://vdare.com/articles/michelle-malkin-the-manufactured-border-crisis

https://humansarefree.com/2021/09/covid-cases-high-schools-in-fully-vaccinated.html

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/09/stew-peters-medical-worker-forced-to-get-vaccine-gets-both-legs-amputated-after-jab/

https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/21/afghan-refugees-bringing-numerous-diseases-to-us-including-measles-malaria-and-tuberculosis/

https://www.newswars.com/afghan-migrants-gang-rape-mentally-disabled-swedish-woman/
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A new study says that couch potatoes are 7 times more likely to have a stroke.

To make matters worse, I had to watch the entire story on the news because the TV remote was on the far opposite side of the room.

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I met a Muslim man who said he had the Qur'an on DVD.

The trouble started when I asked him to burn a copy for me.

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President Biden's popularity has plummeted, dropping to only a 41% approval rating.

People are apparently upset with his handling of Afghanistan, the pandemic and the failure to secure a permanent new host for Jeopardy.

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Just hours after cover art for NHL 22 was shown, EA sports had to recall all advanced copies of the game sent out to testers.

Apparently during beta testing, it was discovered that before going to the second round of the playoffs, the game would freeze.

The irony of a hockey game freezing cannot be ignored.

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I’m writing a book in fifth person.

Every sentence starts out with: “I heard from this guy who told somebody…”

Quote of the Times;
"You know what I mean. But the kinds of things or, you know, stuff that's coming out of Florida, stuff that's coming out of you know, Robert E. Lee had been in Afghanistan, he woulda won." - "President" Joe Biden

Link of the Times;
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/_clarence_thomas_identifies_the_greatest_danger_in_america.html

Issue of the Times;
U.S. touts new project to bolster Tajik-Afghan border, as Biden abandons U.S. border wall by Bethany Blankley

While the Biden administration halted construction of the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the United States is funding border security efforts for Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic trying to keep Afghan insurgents and refugees out.

One day after the Biden administration's Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, announced that it had launched a project to construct new facilities for a Border Guard Detachment in Ayvoj, along the Tajik-Afghan-Uzbek border.

That facility is designed to help Tajik security forces better respond to Afghans seeking to flee Taliban rule or insurgents seeking to cause mischief to its neighbor.

While the announcement was largely overlooked by the U.S. media, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) warned in August that it was "preposterous" for American tax dollars to be spent securing a foreign country's border while the U.S. southern border remained wide open.

Last month, nearly 209,000 illegal aliens crossed the U.S. southern border, a two-decade high and four times higher than the last August of the Trump administration, which had tightened border security.

"So we are clear: your tax money is spent building a wall and securing the border in Tajikistan and hydro-power in Afghanistan, but our borders are open and the last large hydro power plant built by Army Corp of Engineers in U.S. was in 1979," Gosar said.

Tajikistan shares an 835-mile border with Afghanistan — less than the 1,254 miles of border shared between Texas and Mexico and less than half the 1,954-mile distance of the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

A new detachment facility in Ayvoj, Tajikistan will replace an outdated facility and allow the Border Guard Service to deploy forces more quickly to border areas in response to threats posed by the Taliban's takeover.

The new facility will also provide housing for Border Guard personnel and their family members, U.S. officials said.

Tajikistan is still a member of the post-Soviet, Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CTSO) alliance, Reuters reports.

"The United States and Tajikistan enjoy strong security cooperation, and this border detachment project is just another example of our shared commitment to the security and sovereignty of Tajikistan and Central Asia," said U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan John Mark Pommersheim.

Since 2002, the U.S. government has provided over $300 million in security-sector assistance to Tajikistan. U.S. taxpayers have also footed the bill to renovate or rebuild 12 border outposts, nine border checkpoint facilities, and three training centers for Tajik border guards to help combat security threats, the embassy disclosed.

One month before the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan, Tajikistan said it could only take roughly 100,000 Afghan refugees — knowing ahead of time that they would be coming.

"Tajikistan does not have the capacity to accommodate a large number of refugees and asylum seekers," Interior Minister Ramazon Rakhimzoda said in July, according to a report by Reuters.

Similar concerns were also expressed by other European countries that beefed up their border efforts, including Greece and Hungary.

Meanwhile, in Texas, state taxpayers are left footing another bill: $1.8 billion allocated by the Texas legislature to finish the U.S. border wall on Texas soil begun under the Trump administration.

The Texas Facilities Commission earlier this month selected a program manager to oversee the wall's construction: Michael Baker International, Inc., a Pennsylvania engineering firm, and the Dallas-based design firm, Huitt-Zollars.

The contract is expected to be awarded any day. Both firms have helped complete hundreds of miles of border wall projects for the federal government. It's the first time any entity would be contracted with a state government to install a border wall.

Legislation recently signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott allocates funding for border security.

Instead of the U.S. government sending troops to secure the border, the Texans are paying an initial $301 million towards salaries and costs for 1,800 National Guardsmen and women, roughly 11 battalions, to install fencing with trespassing signs, and later work on the wall construction or another barrier.

A Washington Examiner analysis indicates only 150 miles of the 1,250 mile border has a substantive barrier, leaving 1,100 miles left for Texas to secure.

But the purpose of the border wall is not to cover the entire 1,254 miles of Texas, or the entire southern border separating the U.S. from Mexico.

Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, has explained the purpose of the wall is to provide controlled points of entry at different checkpoints along the border. This has proven to be an effective strategy to allow Border Patrol agents to manage the flow of immigration and patrol the field to deter criminal activity.

Texas has identified slightly more than 700 miles of land where barriers, fences and the wall can be constructed. The Texas National Guard has already begun erecting an 8-foot-high chain-link fence in some sectors.

News of the Times;
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/number-of-americans-trapped-in-afghanistan-exceeds-biden-admin-claims-gop-lawmaker-says/

https://vdare.com/posts/gunshot-victims-cost-one-cleveland-trauma-center-672-000-per-month-85-of-those-treated-are-black

https://coloradohockeynow.com/2021/09/13/ex-av-colorado-eagles-coach-brett-clark-leaves-team-over-covid-protocol-issue/

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/americans-spent-more-taxes-2020-food-clothing-healthcare-and

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/massachusetts-activates-national-guard-bus-children-school-after-vax-mandate-staffing

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/sarah-palin-announces-unvaccinated-believes-science-dr-drew-backs-claims/

https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2021/09/i-just-want-my-life-back-says-16-year-old-who-developed-neurological-symptoms-after-pfizer-vaccine

https://campusreform.org/article?id=18166

https://www.oann.com/fitton-documents-show-obama-fda-buying-fetal-heads-fresh-never-frozen/

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/desantis-office-over-half-those-seeking-lifesaving-covid-19-treatment-south-florida-fully

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/somalian-refugee-charged-with-shooting-murder-of-north-dakota-mother/

https://thepostmillennial.com/us-lieutenant-colonel-resigns-marxist-takeover

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/sarah-silverman-proposes-national-divorce-between-conservatives-and-liberals/

https://thepostmillennial.com/teen-vogue-busted-police-abolitionist-author-candidates-consultant?utm_campaign=64474

https://www.dw.com/en/evergrande-why-the-chinese-property-giant-is-close-to-collapse/a-59175953
Babies?
The recent Pacific Northwest heat wave is said to have killed thousands of clams and mussels along the coast; baked 'em right on the beach.

We are an overturned butter truck away from a heck of a party.

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A judge in Spain says that Shakira may have avoided paying the taxes she owed and should go to trial.

Hopefully, her hips won't be called in to testify.

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In a tragedy that's becoming all too common among millennial women, local wife and mother of three Destiny Madur sadly passed away after she only managed to drink seven and a half glasses of water instead of the recommended eight on Saturday.

"This death was entirely preventable," said presiding ER doctor F.P. Langley. "It's so sad to see a young, healthy woman like Mrs. Madur not drink all eight glasses of water a day as we've been recommending for some time. She was trying to down that last half a glass and then just left it on her bedside table, which kind of looked like the house in Signs with all the water containers left everywhere. But she started watching one of her TV shows and forgot about it."

Dr. Langley said that as soon as the clock struck midnight, Madur realized her mistake and reached for her glass of water to finish it off, but it was too late. She died moments later. Her husband says he is dedicating his life to making sure people drink eight glasses of water a day. "It's what she would have wanted," he said somberly. "She was always telling me to drink more water. In an ironic twist of fate, that's what undid her in the end. WHY, GOD!? WHY?!?!"

According to experts, millions of women die every year after not quite managing to chug a full eight glasses of water a day. "It's the number one cause of death in America," said medical journalist Paul Breadcrombie. "So very sad."

At publishing time, sources had confirmed most men haven't drunk a full glass of water in over a decade and are totally fine.

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My friends asked me to go camping, so I made a list of the things I would need:

#1. New friends.

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What does a British owl say?

Whom...., whom.

Quote of the Times;
“Pedophilia is the end game of equality. It always was. And every single conservative who proudly embraced “judeochristianity” and every single liberal who preened about how he only judged people by the content of their character bears their share of the blame for walking down this road. Jesus Christ came to divide, not to unite, and there is absolutely no equality of any kind, not in Heaven and not in this world. If you are preaching unity, equality, tolerance, and inclusiveness, you are serving evil.” - Vox Day

Link of the Times;
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/09/29/busted-on-hot-mic-pa-gov-wolf-and-elected-crony-laughing-about-masks-as-political-theater-n986251

Issue of the Times;
Hospital to stop delivering babies as maternity workers resign over vaccine mandate by Brendan Straub

LOWVILLE, New York (WWNY) - Lewis County General Hospital will stop delivering babies after September 24 because too many maternity unit workers have resigned over COVID vaccination mandates.

That’s according to Lewis County Health System Chief Executive Officer Gerald Cayer, who held a news conference Friday in Lowville.

He said 6 employees in the maternity unit resigned rather than get a COVID shot and another 7 are undecided.

According to Cayer, the hospital will be unable to safely staff the unit and will pause delivering babies after September 24.

He said he hopes this is a temporary situation and will work with the state Department of Health to make sure the unit won’t permanently close.

“If we can pause the service and now focus on recruiting nurses who are vaccinated, we will be able to reengage in delivering babies here in Lewis County,” said Cayer.

Cayer said 165 hospital employees have yet to be vaccinated against COVID-19; that’s 27 percent of the workforce.

The other 464 workers, or 73 percent of employees, have gotten their shots, he said.

In August, the state announced all health care workers at hospitals and long-term care facilities across New York would be required to have gotten at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination by September 27.

Cayer said the announcement prompted 30 workers to get vaccinated, while another 30 resigned.

“Our hope is as we get closer (to the deadline), the numbers will increase of individuals who are vaccinated, fewer individuals will leave and maybe, with a little luck, some of those who have resigned will reconsider,” he said. “We are not alone. There are thousands of positions that are open north of the Thruway and now we have a challenge to work through, you know, with the vaccination mandate.”

News of the Times;
https://nationalfile.com/lockdown-resister-and-music-legend-eric-clapton-releases-this-has-gotta-stop-covid-protest-song/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/15/covid-politics-takes-a-dark-turn-biden-administration-takes-control-of-monoclonal-antibody-drugs-in-order-to-block-treatments-in-red-states-and-ration-equitable-treatment/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/three-california-recall-ballots-sent-address-deceased-american-veteran-patriot-ashli-babbitt-shot-killed-capitol-jan-6/

https://notthebee.com/article/trump-i-guarantee-china-and-russia-already-have-our-apache-helicopters-and-theyre-taking-them-apart-to-find-out-exactly-how-theyre-made

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2021/09/13/watch-video-shows-hospital-staff-plotting-to-scare-the-public-on-covid-19-n1478281

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/us-averaging-70-deaths-per-day-due-covid-vaccine-since-july-24th-3296-covid-total-vaccine-deaths-recorded-vaers-website/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/i_will_never_trust_another_doctor.html

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/ex-washington-democrat-party-organizer-convicted-of-terrorist-train-derailment-plot/

https://welovetrump.com/2021/09/10/military-in-revolt-12-f-22-pilots-immediately-walk-off-the-job-after-bidens-dictatorial-mandate/

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-aoc-wears-tax-the-rich-gown-at-30-000-a-ticket-met-gala?utm_campaign=64474

https://www.westernjournal.com/ex-special-forces-soldier-beats-woman-pulp-left-cheering/

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/coup-general-milley-secretly-pledged-to-warn-chinese-communist-party-if-trump-planned-a-strike/

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/395593.php

https://freebeacon.com/politics/nevada-democrats-costume-party/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/won-fort-hood-shooter-islamic-terrorist-nidal-hasan-congratulates-taliban-fort-leavenworth-prison/
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