tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.comments2024-03-18T22:21:01.033-04:00Grim's HallGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger66208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-52450262141616715292024-03-18T22:21:01.033-04:002024-03-18T22:21:01.033-04:00All of this is fascinating.
It brings to mind to ...All of this is fascinating.<br /><br />It brings to mind to me another view- the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi" rel="nofollow">Wabi-Sabi</a>. It's a philosophy that embraces the fact that we live in a fallen or imperfect world, and dismisses the pursuit of perfection as impossible and unknowable. It's more complicated than that of course, but that's a taste.<br /><br />I was introduced to it via this book- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wabi-Sabi-Artists-Designers-Poets-Philosophers/dp/0981484603/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3DZLE1ED4IJ98&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pz5SDJoWx8gzHEXn4UsV70T8RNc34yFlqJGN2xLInTvvXrAIMJmoryfR7P_MH6uyNKEUXENti-7lFK0RsmQH01-aIhxWlN6ObvFkTt4vRpI7YZYqtW9yYO8iSGaHQuwMpceS8oLXVNLvd6oKDcraGPGmhSHHtHaMw7JoqCHCPyHCdUWeJMjpmy14k-gZXhhJolBZ7ucgsamMA62t12zsKfmwrpZF8PhlagVtt2Oy1HBikpjWlrujdPrgXSmzvrUDQ6DGin_LtTD7NJggj-K1xM_VUYLkKuBLh57b3SgSqaE.3hY-XWTY2yee-ioJAWqYqNYOC-T5DMINdzWZsG6ftHk&dib_tag=se&keywords=wabi+sabi&qid=1710814602&sprefix=wabi+sabi%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-3" rel="nofollow">"Wabi-Sabi - For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers"</a><br /><br />I also thought that Gawain might have been helped had he known the Jewish song "Dayenu"- "It is Enough", which is basically a prayer of thanks to God for all he's done, by saying "had he only reeleased us from the bonds of the Egyptians, it would have been enough", and then proceeds through the litany of gifts God had given his chosen people, always followed by "it would have been enough".douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241790925053112959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-66479333236890434722024-03-18T22:09:28.386-04:002024-03-18T22:09:28.386-04:00I don't want to be this automatic in my thinki...I don't want to be this automatic in my thinking, but at this point whenever I hear about any Trump lawsuit information my first thought is "Hunter Biden arranging money for his dad, who uses his office to protect him." I admit I have increased my danger of being eaten by a wolf, but I just plain have an actual life to live.<br /><br />Or as I taught my children to ask in the 1990's "Compared to what/whom?"Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815849371084419160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-36940050448566065432024-03-18T21:55:01.767-04:002024-03-18T21:55:01.767-04:00James writes semi-humorously, but I think is spot ...James writes semi-humorously, but I think is spot on. "You people don't understand that this is Really Important!"<br /><br />Oh. Oh, <i>Really Important?</i> Well why didn't you say so?<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2c9-LDP0t0 Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815849371084419160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-83085316394000514312024-03-18T21:32:11.549-04:002024-03-18T21:32:11.549-04:00Yep, Gringo, that's Oklahoma.Yep, Gringo, that's Oklahoma.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-21206540443559999842024-03-18T21:04:53.176-04:002024-03-18T21:04:53.176-04:00I read a brief comment, IIRC on Instapundit, that ...I read a brief comment, IIRC on Instapundit, that to the reporter it seemed the hypotheticals posed during oral arguments were far too focused on safety issues of the sort james raised and which were not really part of the fact pattern of the original case.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-80429081202575929282024-03-18T20:43:26.110-04:002024-03-18T20:43:26.110-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-6067723446101425392024-03-18T20:43:25.253-04:002024-03-18T20:43:25.253-04:00This kind of censorship seems to differ in kind fr...This kind of censorship seems to differ in kind from war-time censorship. In the latter you restrict the truth and add lies to manipulate enemies who you _know_ are trying to kill you. In the former you are trying to manipulate your own citizens away from something you _think_ is risky.<br /><br />I can, of course, imagine a situation where a government would almost have a duty to suppress/distort information. Take as a ridiculous extreme a situation in which someone has figured out how to make a nuke from D-cells and peanut butter. We all know of people, maybe know them personally, who would try it out just for kicks, and some who would use the formula to satisfy a grudge, never mind who else died. (Whether trying to suppress the details would even work is a whole other question.)<br /><br />Does erroneous information about a relatively mild disease rise to the level of an existential threat? (Yes, I had some friends die of it--and also of the flu. Compare it to adult measles in a naive population, or ebola, for real existential threats, please.) No doubt some will claim that climate change is an existential threat, but even if it were so, remediation measures aren't obvious and should be up for thorough debate. And for arranging for accountability.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-3977518141540020582024-03-18T20:18:05.959-04:002024-03-18T20:18:05.959-04:00It does sound like she's really worried that t...It does sound like she's really worried that the government might have to obey some rules <i>even when it's really important</i>. <br /><br />I wonder that they didn't compare it with the Third Amendment. Like, the government probably wouldn't even want to quarter troops in your house except in an emergency like an actual insurrection. Obviously this is exactly when these rules are meant to apply. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-13778044232330033292024-03-18T19:11:05.838-04:002024-03-18T19:11:05.838-04:00Did I ever tell you that I voted for him in my fir...Did I ever tell you that I voted for him in my first election even though his security ran me and my friends off from his event at the Varsity? I guess we looked like teenage heathens and no-goods, which was mostly true but we were still there to hear him out. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-73953919323276935832024-03-18T18:19:02.395-04:002024-03-18T18:19:02.395-04:00I am not in favor of "mass immigration" ...I am not in favor of "mass immigration" from ANYWHERE. But I'd be very happy were the current (legal) system changed to strongly favor peoples with a Judaeo-Christian heritage/culture. <br /><br />So happens that PJBuchanan thinks the same; that's where I stole the idea.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-21760193857151748892024-03-18T18:09:12.577-04:002024-03-18T18:09:12.577-04:00It's not any better with added context.
Here&...It's not any better with added context.<br /><br />Here's some more, courtesy of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/18/justice-jackson-complains-first-amendment-is-hamstringing-feds-censorship-efforts/" rel="nofollow"> <b>The Federalist</b></a>:<br /><br /><i>“You seem to be suggesting that that duty [to protect Americans] cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” Jackson. “So can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”</i><br /><br />As Aguiñaga explained, <i>Our position is not that the government can[not] interact with the platforms there. They can and they should in certain circumstances like that, that present such dangerous issues for society and especially young people,” Aguiñaga said. “But the way they do that has to be in compliance with the First Amendment. And I think that means they can give them all the true information that the platform needs and ask to amplify that.</i><br /><br />Indeed, and what seems grindingly obvious to this poor, dumb non-lawyer Texan, the best way--the constitutional way--to deal with false claims, or merely erroneous ones, regarding dangerous issues includes that, and it includes the government going ahead and posting retweets/reposts of the wrong material with replies attached containing what the government claims to be the correct information, together with the logic behind why it thinks the one is wrong and its claims are correct. To the extent the government's claims are believable, that would do far more to deprecate the credibility of the wrong information and the source of it than hiding the wrong information via censorship. That censorship, in fact, enhances the credibility of the censored information and its source.<br /><br />And further, to do their jawboning, apart from their countervailing postings, in public.<br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42042351221093642472024-03-18T17:59:56.367-04:002024-03-18T17:59:56.367-04:00North America looks at European weather and says, ...North America looks at European weather and says, "Here. Y'all hold my beer and watch this!" We went from 80F to snow and 33F in 30 hours two weeks back. <br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-52670017367962450762024-03-18T17:49:55.871-04:002024-03-18T17:49:55.871-04:00A fuller transcript here:
https://www.realclearpo...A fuller transcript here:<br /><br />https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/18/justice_ketanji_brown_jackson_first_amendment_hamstringing_federal_ability_to_respond_to_threatening_circumstances_from_the_governments_perspective.html<br /><br />I think her comments make a little more sense in this version.<br /><br />As I understand it, one of the Justices asked whether the same rules would apply to print media, for example, The New York Times. Perhaps the issue KBJ is trying to struggle with is whether there is something intrinsically different about social media, some different compelling government interest that is in play for, say, Facebook that is not in play for the NYT.<br /><br />The response from Louisiana I find most interesting is that the person whose speech is being censored is not in the room when the government is talking to/coercing the social media host.<br />Elisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594477709835944165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42071431428331414602024-03-18T16:32:18.898-04:002024-03-18T16:32:18.898-04:00I happened to be looking at the Wiki entry for my...I happened to be looking at the Wiki entry for my cousin's town in Oklahoma. It said that one February, the temperature rose to 99 degrees. Three days later, it snowed.Gringonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-40767483664030626332024-03-18T16:06:24.304-04:002024-03-18T16:06:24.304-04:00I was wondering about that, but I decided that it ...I was wondering about that, but I decided that it made sense either way. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-41039262664082444162024-03-18T15:51:21.739-04:002024-03-18T15:51:21.739-04:00In the last sentence, I meant to refer to "Tr...In the last sentence, I meant to refer to "Trump's opponents," not his "supporters."<br />Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-8047488711661578272024-03-18T15:43:49.359-04:002024-03-18T15:43:49.359-04:00That's the moral of the Boy Who Cried Wolf: w...That's the moral of the Boy Who Cried Wolf: when there was a real wolf, no one was listening to him any more. No one doubts that real wolves may threaten us, only that the people constantly trying to alarm us about a particular wolf threat should be listened to for one more instant.<br /><br />We'll have to hope that, if there ever is a real wolf, we'll be able to rely on someone else to sound the real alarm. The current batch are permanently discredited with half the country.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42883770462620405052024-03-18T15:25:38.911-04:002024-03-18T15:25:38.911-04:00I hope her remarks look better in context. I hope her remarks look better in context. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-44824940619626870452024-03-18T14:05:46.336-04:002024-03-18T14:05:46.336-04:00"Trump's supporters may have to figure ou..."Trump's supporters may have to figure out a way to criticize him in a way that can be heard by more than his bitterest and most entrenched enemies."<br /><br />Because some criticism will doubtless be warranted? That seems fair. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42553758331823936092024-03-18T11:00:06.669-04:002024-03-18T11:00:06.669-04:00The weather here is unstable year round! Especiall...The weather here is unstable year round! Especially so in the spring, though.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-65562810358792336292024-03-18T04:21:22.818-04:002024-03-18T04:21:22.818-04:00With language like this, I'm hesitant to take ...With language like this, I'm hesitant to take the article seriously at all- <i>"... these mammals will unfortunately keep having their fears triggered."</i><br /><br />Then there's this: <i>"By playing human conversations in areas with known poaching in South Africa, they hope to keep the endangered Southern white rhino safely away."</i><br />I'd guess you run a pretty substantial risk that you habituate them to those sounds instead, making them more vulnerable. Any hunter knows the animals know when an area with humans is safe and when it isn't, or they figure it out very quickly.douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241790925053112959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-14282046217560643812024-03-17T21:29:42.527-04:002024-03-17T21:29:42.527-04:00Gringo, I think that's about right. Mercy is ...Gringo, I think that's about right. Mercy is not the same thing as capitulation.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815849371084419160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-48681785378178471622024-03-17T11:37:28.152-04:002024-03-17T11:37:28.152-04:00So is the point that the US benefits more from Mex...So is the point that the US benefits more from Mexican immigrants, because they adhere to the cult, than it does from other Americans who do not (perhaps being members of the cult of Mammon)? I had not understood you to be in favor of mass immigration from Catholic Latin America, but here it sounds like you might favor that as a way of diluting the influence of non-Christian elements within the country.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-78238750618398513222024-03-17T09:16:18.249-04:002024-03-17T09:16:18.249-04:001610s, "worship, homage" (a sense now ob...<i>1610s, "worship, homage" (a sense now obsolete); 1670s, "a particular form or system of worship;" from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till"</i> See: https://www.etymonline.com/word/cult<br /><br />Benedict XVI used the term 'cult' in the 1670's sense, broadened to include the theo/philosophical foundation of Christianity. <br /><br />There are plenty of people who claim "Christianity" and/or "Catholicism." Not all of them are actual practitioners, no matter what the Press says about Biden (e.g.). I maintain that for many people, the actual "cult" is that of Mammon, with Unlimited Free Sex a close second, perhaps tied with Self-Worship. (Nor do I claim sainthood!!!)<br /><br />The Mexicans are--in most cases--adherents to the Judaeo-Christian cult. They are not Shinto, Mohammedan, Hindu, nor Animist. But as with Americans, there are 'not-Christians' who claim Christianity.<br /><br />Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-1881746722450831052024-03-17T07:16:49.034-04:002024-03-17T07:16:49.034-04:00.....Pope Francis, for example, is definitely at l........Pope Francis, for example, is definitely at least philosophically different even though he is the formal head of the religion.....<br /><br />Ahhh NO.<br /><br />Not Pope, probably Anti pope. Probably CIA NWO plant.?<br />We are not obliged to follow this heretic who obviously hates Christ and Catholics.<br /><br />We follow the 2000 year Magisterium teachings of the Roman Catholic Church<br />not the Magisterium of Jorge Bergolio<br /><br />GregAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com