tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223017402024-03-18T06:17:22.100-07:00The Scratching PostWorking through my ignorance with your help.K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger9956125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-62206725091172284142024-03-17T05:24:00.000-07:002024-03-17T05:31:21.747-07:00How Do You Evict 183,000 People?<p> ... if they don't have anywhere else to go and are desperate?</p><p>Dig this.</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces changes to the right to shelter law . The right to shelter law was meant for New Yorker, not migrants. Adult migrants have 30 days to find a new location and won't be able to reapply for a new shelter. <a href="https://t.co/qcalrUUqdR">pic.twitter.com/qcalrUUqdR</a></p>— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ViralNewsNYC/status/1768714064308433139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
<p>Back in the day, when I was building a custom home with my previous wife, the lot had a decrepit house with ne'er do well renters. In 6 month period, we collected 1 month of rent. Evicting them was going to cost us an arm and a leg in legal fees, so instead, we informed them that we were going to bulldoze the place and they had to leave. They left without any fuss.</p><p>NYC has managed to get itself into a far worse mess. We only owned the house and had no responsibility for the rest of the city. NYC <i>is</i> the city. There's nowhere for the illegals to go, particularly if their benefits are expiring. Further, as has been noted before on this blog, the NYPD combat strength is down to about 60%. If even 10% of the illegals dig in their heels, how does the city plan on getting them to leave their current housing?</p><p>Now solve that problem from the point of view of an NYPD flatfoot. You're outnumbered 100-1, the illegals are desperate and many of them are criminal toughs. Your DA does not have your back. If you can't risk using your gun without going to jail, the encounters become melees at which point numbers matter a great deal.</p><p>Two things come to mind. </p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>You'd have to be crazy to remain an NYPD officer.</li><li>Things in NYC are about to go sideways in a big way.</li></ol><p></p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-88272254694852508272024-03-12T06:41:00.000-07:002024-03-12T10:02:19.374-07:00Sadly, ChatGPT Will Not Generate Porn<p> ... certainly not my subversive kind of porn.</p><p>At work, I use Atlassian's Jira to help a large organization track and manage very complicated, distributed projects. Jira is a web-based issue management tool. Prior to my work, employees had emailed each other massive spreadsheets where the recipient would have to collate it with other spreadsheets. Usually, the spreadsheets were OBE as soon as they were received as the data behind them was constantly changing.</p><p>M$FT Office was the best tool we Boomers had to do information work. Nowadays, web-based tools where the servers exchange information with each other in near real-time is far superior.</p><p>Our organization is only now crawling away from M$FT Office. Oh, wait, it's being dragged back into it. Marginally competent managers on our IT and Knowledge Management teams have been sold a bill of goods with Office 365 and M$FT Teams, so web-based tools are being phased out in favor of files and email.</p><p>We Boomers are reaching out from our career graves and tormenting the younger generations, haunting them with Excel and PowerPoint. It's a horror movie in tech.</p><p>Anyways, I asked ChatGPT, M$FT's AI tool to generate an image of this and ... well, see for yourself.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZ1hV3D3BB3dceuUpmWwhYxfzJu3MFfMGLQ3NVUzXl4ShWcHQJUbM_iTG-tfMVQp_aMsdk7-NbVlhs5o4kvnJfjiLa2K2ESAM9umXUZRbNwmKa1UgPuFUKiG3C8BP7EFRH9oYbEYUY2sh7_o6pcQG_c9JlpPKSpQLCDUC5qwsOnbEFHnJ9Q/s600/2024-03-12_06-31-02.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZ1hV3D3BB3dceuUpmWwhYxfzJu3MFfMGLQ3NVUzXl4ShWcHQJUbM_iTG-tfMVQp_aMsdk7-NbVlhs5o4kvnJfjiLa2K2ESAM9umXUZRbNwmKa1UgPuFUKiG3C8BP7EFRH9oYbEYUY2sh7_o6pcQG_c9JlpPKSpQLCDUC5qwsOnbEFHnJ9Q/s16000/2024-03-12_06-31-02.webp" /></a></div><br />K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-78066682022045000802024-03-11T13:01:00.000-07:002024-03-11T13:01:17.371-07:00ChatGPT Got Me To The Gym Today<p> I know they're hooey, but for me, biorhythms are real. There are times when I just don't want to do anything. I can go through whole weeks like that. Then there are weeks and weeks where I want to do everything as hard and as fast as I can. </p><p>Today was a nothing day. I got up around 0400, had a good cup of coffee, said my decade of the Rosary, hopped online and ingested all kinds of outrage triggers. It was all on schedule. Then it came time to go to the gym and I just couldn't do it. All I wanted to do was grab a little more coffee and ooze into the hot tub.</p><p>On a whim, I told ChatGPT my problems and then got inspired to ask it to reply as various personas. Dig these responses. I edited them down a bit because, as Tim has pointed out, the thing can be a real windbag.</p><p>I ended up going to the gym and doing a full workout. After I read through these, the ones who recommended sloth were the real motivation. I didn't want to be like them.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Drill Sergeant</h3><p>Listen up! It's time to get moving, soldier! You've been granted a life of security and health, and it's not to be wasted lounging in hot tubs and staring at screens all day. The world out there needs what you've got – your skills, your experience, your energy. It's time to find a mission, something that gets you fired up and ready to roll out of bed in the morning.</p><p>And remember, soldier, this isn’t about harsh judgment; it’s about discipline, purpose, and taking action. You've got a reservoir of strength and determination inside you. Time to tap into it, get strategic, and move out!</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Caustic, Severe Nun</h3><p>My child, you have been blessed with health, wealth, and time, gifts that many can only dream of. And yet, here you are, squandering these divine blessings in pursuits that nourish neither the soul nor the world. It is a grievous sight, one that demands immediate rectification.</p><p>The Lord did not grant you these gifts for them to be frittered away in idleness and indulgence. There is much work to be done, many in need of your help, wisdom, and compassion. You must awaken from this lethargy and seek out ways to serve God's creation, to make use of the talents bestowed upon you for the greater good.</p><p>Do not delay. The time to act is now. Redeem yourself in the eyes of the Lord by embracing a life of purpose and service. Let this be the moment you turn towards the light, dedicating yourself to a cause greater than your own desires. Go forth, and sin no more.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Fat, Lazy Housecat Speaking In Lolcat</h3><p>Oh hai. U finkin bout doin all dat stuff, huh? Soundz like lotz of werk. Why not jus chillz wif me instead? We gotz da purrfect setup here. U, me, cozy spot by da window. No needz for all dat runnin around an doin fings. Let's take it eazy.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-5XcNG8zpaI_gmzjrjM9P2kVSKTJKJ2PhCObUJ9mc6RrHkWRRgDXKom1qCQBto2Dq45Ip_aXgueRZNiFz77IcpW35JtG7QoulWfFJI0_9cN1sQgGWWsTVI3wDp2NblRIR4UxpQUMyqKL4t7l5ZEAR20hdTj90Mnv2-M4lv9Rgh3TJAIpuw/s1024/Lazy%20Cat.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-5XcNG8zpaI_gmzjrjM9P2kVSKTJKJ2PhCObUJ9mc6RrHkWRRgDXKom1qCQBto2Dq45Ip_aXgueRZNiFz77IcpW35JtG7QoulWfFJI0_9cN1sQgGWWsTVI3wDp2NblRIR4UxpQUMyqKL4t7l5ZEAR20hdTj90Mnv2-M4lv9Rgh3TJAIpuw/w400-h400/Lazy%20Cat.webp" width="400" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Atheistic Nihilist</h3><p>Oh, you're feeling the existential ennui today, huh? Look, from a cosmic perspective, nothing we do really matters. We're all just stardust on a floating rock, spiraling into the void. So, if you're looking for some grand purpose or meaning, you might be out of luck. The universe is indifferent to our struggles and joys.</p><p>Forget about societal expectations or looking for some grand purpose. The pursuit of happiness, pleasure, and experiences is the most rational response to the absurdity of existence. Want to spend the day in a hot tub, then go online all day? If that brings you joy, go for it. The only thing that's truly rational in an indifferent universe is to maximize your own happiness and contentment, in whatever form that takes.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">General Stonewall Jackson</h3><p>I find myself compelled to address your current state with the same fervor and dedication I applied to my campaigns. In life, as on the battlefield, one must always strive to make use of the resources at their disposal, not squander them in idleness or without purpose. You find yourself in an enviable position, blessed with health, financial security, and the luxury of time—resources many soldiers would have envied during the trials we faced.</p><p>I implore you, do not let this day pass as another footnote in a life of could-have-beens. Rise, and set forth with the determination and purpose that lie within you, awaiting your command. Let this be the day you take up your own campaign, not with the musket and the cannon, but with the unwavering resolve to live a life of purpose and action.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Grade School Counselor</h3><p>Oh, sweetie, I hear you. It's really, really okay to feel this way. Everyone has those days where everything just feels like too much, even the things that usually make us happy or feel productive. It's completely normal, and I'm here for you, no matter what.</p><p>You know, it's so important to listen to what your heart and body are telling you. If they're saying it's a day to rest, then maybe that's exactly what you need. But, I also want you to remember how special and capable you are. Even on days when you feel a little lost or unmotivated, you have so many wonderful qualities and so much potential inside of you.</p><p>It's perfectly okay to have days where you don't feel like doing much. We all do, and it doesn't make you any less amazing. I'm always here to talk, to listen, and to support you in finding your way, at your own pace.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Victorian English Aristocrat</h3><p>It is most pertinent that we, the custodians of privilege and rank, comprehend the profound duty that accompanies our station. We are, by virtue of our birth and fortune, set upon a pedestal, observed closely by the eyes of those less fortunate in their societal standings. It is imperative, therefore, that we conduct ourselves with the utmost propriety and diligence, for we are the living exemplars upon which the lower orders might model their aspirations and conduct.</p><p>I implore you to cast aside these doldrums and to embrace fully the responsibilities of your position. Engage in charitable works, take an active interest in the welfare of those who depend upon you, and dedicate yourself to pursuits that will not only ennoble your spirit but also serve as a beacon of hope and inspiration to the common folk.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-53951730772330986392024-03-10T09:32:00.000-07:002024-03-10T09:32:38.325-07:00I'm Growing To Love ChatGPT's AI Art<p>Lately, ChatGPT has been producing some really lovely art for me. On Twitter, at the end of the day, I like to close out with some pleasant AI art. I'm now going to do the same at the start of the day. My initial efforts have involved an older, Southern man or woman with a cat. Dig these, posted last night and this morning, respectively. Each took only a few iterations to get something I liked.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87EvzXLPY59zHr4OhT1TIUNNpGXH3yQq8nrZX7RawnEk9BTNq4vRXlNyESQfbMSLAz7UJtNYZ4leHEI_FC095dzC6Zry8FVZp9P4-5kk-THCHyy15-AXVfggJ00o9fgPXl9x1XeXy0EHACo5k-pxLcfNUL6cJEnxVE9nkni1lek-ZiAoIgA/s1024/DALL%C2%B7E%202024-03-09%2020.07.50.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87EvzXLPY59zHr4OhT1TIUNNpGXH3yQq8nrZX7RawnEk9BTNq4vRXlNyESQfbMSLAz7UJtNYZ4leHEI_FC095dzC6Zry8FVZp9P4-5kk-THCHyy15-AXVfggJ00o9fgPXl9x1XeXy0EHACo5k-pxLcfNUL6cJEnxVE9nkni1lek-ZiAoIgA/w400-h400/DALL%C2%B7E%202024-03-09%2020.07.50.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhneRLjtgVSnsy0DVVsRoTDH1NHf0WoWb_MZ_gugEAjK1S3reC04TULaKMgyVR7tH42PKZvSGdF53RsUz_nPyz4BoQkznL2Jd2I36s1LENwvX_gAAlBjun6o8upCa7pbsr3TZDhilREoySYfCanLh0EHOij705uKhWdcRmjDxFS6_6eaaUzw/s1024/DALL%C2%B7E%202024-03-10%2006.59.07.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhneRLjtgVSnsy0DVVsRoTDH1NHf0WoWb_MZ_gugEAjK1S3reC04TULaKMgyVR7tH42PKZvSGdF53RsUz_nPyz4BoQkznL2Jd2I36s1LENwvX_gAAlBjun6o8upCa7pbsr3TZDhilREoySYfCanLh0EHOij705uKhWdcRmjDxFS6_6eaaUzw/w400-h400/DALL%C2%B7E%202024-03-10%2006.59.07.webp" width="400" /></a></div>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-81711508807331556462024-03-09T05:41:00.000-08:002024-03-09T05:59:14.292-08:00Anti-Pro-Anti Truffle Piggery<p><a href="https://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2024/03/were-all-delusional-truffle-pigs-now.html" target="_blank">Yesterday</a>, we discussed how the racial justice racket is turning us all into delusional truffle pigs, endlessly on the hunt for fantasy racism. The People of Color get rewarded with praise, cosseting and perks. The whites who are their "allies" get praise and a brief <i>frisson</i> of pleasure from exhibiting their fake virtue.</p><blockquote><p>Not only are their no rewards for completely eliminating racism, there are actual disincentives for it. The moment the university says we're all equal and we're all individuals made in the image of God, the blacks' gravy train comes to an end and the whites have to go back to real accomplishments. Ick! We like gravy! We like party-game scavenger hunts where we get praised for finding little odds and ends!</p></blockquote><p>In order to get the joke in the title of this blog post, you need to watch this short bit from <i>Get Smart</i>.</p>
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<p>Some people, disgusted with the racism racket, post videos of blacks behaving badly on Twitter. There are many very popular accounts that do nothing but share videos of blacks fighting, shooting, stealing and slutting. Here's a good example.</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">A horde of wild ⚫️s pollutes the beach with synthetic hair consolidations as they engage in sub-saharan combat.<br /><br />Peep the few normie White people in the crowd who had a front-row seat to watch this N spectacle. <a href="https://t.co/5YvbzcVBmx">pic.twitter.com/5YvbzcVBmx</a></p>— MuhSocioFactors (@Muhsoci0factors) <a href="https://twitter.com/Muhsoci0factors/status/1766201849965629528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
<p>They're truffle pigs, too.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">In The Future, Everyone Will Be A Truffle Pig For 15 Minutes</h3><p>Or maybe longer. Perhaps much, much longer.</p><p>The racial justice crew has been incentivized to find racism everywhere when, in fact, it exists almost nowhere. People sick of being accused of racism they don't have are now incentivized to find videos of blacks behaving badly and share them as fast as they can. "You think I'm a racist? Well, gag on this, you swine!"</p><p>There are truffle pigs. Then there are anti-truffle pigs. That gives rise to pro-anti-truffle pigs who use the anti-truffle pigs as examples of real racism. That engenders anti-pro-anti truffle pigs who show how the truffle pigs are just gravy-sucking pigs as in the gravy train that is our cultural racial rewards machine. If you ever wanted to turn a population against itself in a frenzy of racial hatred, this is how to do it.</p><p>Meanwhile, nothing much is happening. If you turn off the TV and social media and just hang out with real people, racism is pretty hard to find.</p><p>Hmm. There might be a key to a happier life in all that ...</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-15875114018130688012024-03-08T05:12:00.000-08:002024-03-08T05:42:19.153-08:00We're All Delusional Truffle Pigs Now<p>I couldn't help but think of truffle pigs when I stumbled across <a href="https://www.loyola.edu/department/counseling-center/social-justice/anti-racism-white-accountability.html" target="_blank">Loyola University's policies on Anti-racism and White Accountability</a>. Here's the key snippets.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>The Counseling Center recognizes that Loyola University Maryland is a predominantly white institution within the context of Baltimore, Maryland. It has a history steeped in structural racism and racial injustice towards Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), especially Black and African American individuals. We feel it is important to highlight the need for white individuals to take an anti-racist stand and hold each other accountable towards working to change the systems that impact the BIPOC community in oppressive ways...</p><p>Anti-racism is an active process of seeing and being in the world with the intention of working to identify, challenge, and change the values, structures and behaviors that perpetuate structural racism. This highlights the idea that racism occurs at all levels of society and manifests itself in both individual attitudes and behaviors as well as formal and unspoken policies and practices within institutions...</p><p><b>Ultimately, it is for People of Color to decide if one is actually behaving in anti-racist ways</b>. When one finds that they are out of alignment, they need to do what is necessary and try to repair the situation.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Emphasis mine.</p><p>What a racket! Everyone is incentivized to see racism all around them. The more racism they find, the more rewards they get. Blacks* get rewarded with adoration and perks as a way to make up for their suffering and whites get praise for having discovered and rooted out racism on campus.</p><p>Not only are their no rewards for completely eliminating racism, there are actual disincentives for it. The moment the university says we're all equal and we're all individuals made in the image of God, the blacks' gravy train comes to an end and the whites have to go back to real accomplishments. Ick! We like gravy! We like party-game scavenger hunts where we get praised for finding little odds and ends!</p><p>Loyola isn't alone in this. Anti-racism is everywhere around us and the same incentive structure is built into every corporation, every TV show, every movie, every classroom and every political campaign. Woe betide the person that says racism isn't a big deal any more!</p><p>We're all truffle pigs now.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjo-a4hPYnlt6N3n3YwrB0gI3j6jo5r30hPUkJgcp391pPcb2-o2JnkJZSe-7ubCrqBvRIoTT64a2e3d9K7ROcGERHb618tIghJ0m3R9mqEvsHPhnaAIdCNwgRWAdNIZ3ttKyhQOMj9JJ3zeAEQxNu9e7HQPwXWA8ng3nzAF8a9ckwssKH9A/s1000/DALL%C2%B7E%202024-03-08%2005.04.17%20-%20Depict%20a%20heartwarming%20scene%20in%20a%20lush%20forest%20setting%20where%20a%20truffle%20pig,%20with%20its%20snout%20covered%20in%20dirt,%20is%20being%20rewarded%20by%20a%20farmer%20for%20finding%20a%20.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="1000" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjo-a4hPYnlt6N3n3YwrB0gI3j6jo5r30hPUkJgcp391pPcb2-o2JnkJZSe-7ubCrqBvRIoTT64a2e3d9K7ROcGERHb618tIghJ0m3R9mqEvsHPhnaAIdCNwgRWAdNIZ3ttKyhQOMj9JJ3zeAEQxNu9e7HQPwXWA8ng3nzAF8a9ckwssKH9A/w400-h229/DALL%C2%B7E%202024-03-08%2005.04.17%20-%20Depict%20a%20heartwarming%20scene%20in%20a%20lush%20forest%20setting%20where%20a%20truffle%20pig,%20with%20its%20snout%20covered%20in%20dirt,%20is%20being%20rewarded%20by%20a%20farmer%20for%20finding%20a%20.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>Good piggy, you found some racism! Here's a treat!</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This is how you end up with madness like <a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-northwest-racism-outdoors-nature-hiking/" target="_blank">Racism In The Great Outdoors: Oregon’s Natural Spaces Feel Off Limits To Black People</a>.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>(N)ot everyone has the same access to green spaces. Tara Cooper, like many Black people, felt excluded and unwelcomed from a hike in the forests, well before this spring’s closures that were ordered to slow the spread of the coronavirus.</p><p>Cooper moved to Portland from the San Francisco Bay Area more than eight years ago. She said she fell in love with Oregon’s lush green forests and what seemed like never-ending opportunities to enjoy nature.</p><p>But once she arrived, things changed.</p><p>“I quickly realized that may not be for me and my son,” Cooper said. “I would love to have been able to go camping more or do more nature things and even do some off the grid camping if the opportunity came up, but I would never do that in Oregon.”</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Good Lord, it's hiking in the woods. Drive to the park, get out and take a walk. How hard is that? Very hard, it turns out. Just going for a walk requires the black person to overcome systemic racism. They need more perks to be able to do it. The white people who see the racism in the woods get rewarded with praise for having been in tune with the hardships of being black.</p><p>The key feature is that there is no racism in the woods at all. We're not just truffle pigs, we're delusional truffle pigs. We're getting rewarded for finding fantasy truffles. </p><p>Since the truffles come from our imaginations, there's no limit to the number we can find and with each discovery, everyone involved gets a treat.</p><p><b><i>What a racket!</i></b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Special Bonus Take</h3><p>This was my favorite sentence from the Loyola web page:</p><blockquote><p>Ultimately, it is for People of Color to decide if one is actually behaving in anti-racist ways.</p></blockquote><p>The people on the gravy train are uniquely wise and discerning. Only they can tell you when they've had enough gravy and must return to being normal people, equal to everyone else around them. </p><p>Who in the world is going to do that? If some of them become embarrassed by the fraud or do their own research and discover they've been turned into mewling, self-absorbed losers, the rest cast them into the outer darkness where there is great wailing and grinding of teeth. Don't derail the gravy train, you idiots! We've got a good thing going on here!</p><p>That's how we end up with every black conservative being told they're not really black. Meanwhile, the BIPOC end up like everyone who is a mewling, self-absorbed, self-pitying wiener. They end up as failures. Oof.</p><p>* - If you think I'm going to type "People of Color" over and over again, you've got another thing coming. "Blacks" will do just fine as a stand-in.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-76466772843213533122024-03-05T13:05:00.000-08:002024-03-05T13:21:25.206-08:00An Air Assault Was Never Out Of The Question<p>Given the massive, ongoing infantry invasion of the US, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155765/biden-illegal-migrant-flying-program-national-security-vulnerability.html" target="_blank">this should come as no surprise</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0-eVDp8SvyRfDhpL9KMJw9xYepJ-epj9Vbr8pTqVZZ6FcHbV6huWeOC-iBjZxqI0lplMxFJCXgaHEGN8mVtalg414InlkyjB1b60skSsSttI3J_7PLywMCiHOPxo_a0uf0el6RaNL8Gjh_tqhl8xPBGet02A_KO54GuPjhBD_o1W0zm-9Q/s1144/GH6I0-4W8AAXJeB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="941" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0-eVDp8SvyRfDhpL9KMJw9xYepJ-epj9Vbr8pTqVZZ6FcHbV6huWeOC-iBjZxqI0lplMxFJCXgaHEGN8mVtalg414InlkyjB1b60skSsSttI3J_7PLywMCiHOPxo_a0uf0el6RaNL8Gjh_tqhl8xPBGet02A_KO54GuPjhBD_o1W0zm-9Q/w329-h400/GH6I0-4W8AAXJeB.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><p>This is so awful that it's actually hilarious. From the article:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Joe Biden's administration has admitted transporting migrants on secret flights into the U.S. and lawyers for its immigration agencies claim revealing the locations could create national security 'vulnerabilities'.</p><p>Customs and Border Protection has refused to disclose information about a program last year secretly arranging flights for thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign airports directly to U.S. cities.</p><p>It means that while record numbers of migrants were flowing over the southern border last year, the Biden Administration <b>was also directly transporting them into the country</b>.</p></blockquote><p>Emphasis mine.</p><p>Well, that certainly cuts out the middle man, doesn't it? I mean, why stress out those Border Patrol guys with another 320,000 illegals? Why not just airlift them into the sanctuary cities?</p><p>As a frame of reference, we have less than 50,000 airborne soldiers in the US Army so this air assault is more than 6 times the size of our entire airborne forces. On to victory, men*!</p><p>* - Just whose victory this would be is up for discussion.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-48105849625243090082024-03-02T08:06:00.000-08:002024-03-02T08:08:44.097-08:00Cops Ruined My Workout<p> ... or rather, the absence of cops ruined my workout.</p><p>Weekend mornings are heaven at the gym. The bros are all in bed, sleeping off last night's debauchery, so it's quiet and empty. I've got a full day today, so I got up at 0330, did my morning routine and got out the door by 0500. Perfection!</p><p>It's raining this morning. Turning onto the main drag that leads to the gym, I nearly hit this car.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijd_CeQEIIZSNjx_bz_86Y2qfPQhw_24f64ppYNP4aiavhtP7RaehEjQBc0R_4X6eoBatg-T9b516awXyPlaqCne847OTdc7kXDALWja8yaild-tonJLnpQyw0dCPFTcai0hQ3TUJMFZ60eYtipFb8EeI4HZTP4ENccStGpTANHDSEC6Akg/s1000/PXL_20240302_131654765.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="1000" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijd_CeQEIIZSNjx_bz_86Y2qfPQhw_24f64ppYNP4aiavhtP7RaehEjQBc0R_4X6eoBatg-T9b516awXyPlaqCne847OTdc7kXDALWja8yaild-tonJLnpQyw0dCPFTcai0hQ3TUJMFZ60eYtipFb8EeI4HZTP4ENccStGpTANHDSEC6Akg/w400-h301/PXL_20240302_131654765.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>No lights on, just parked in the middle of the right lane. The driver's side window was open, but I didn't see anyone inside. This location is coming right out of a blind corner. On a rainy night, someone was bound to hit it. Lots of people drive 40-50 in this area, so any wreck would be severe.</p><p>I maneuvered my Juke behind this car, turned on my flashers and called 911. The dispatcher recognized the license plate number because someone had already called in the situation.</p><p>I sat there for 45 minutes with my flashers on, acting as a warning. After 45 minutes, a guy pulled up and told me he had called in the car about 90 minutes earlier. He said there was a black guy in the car, either drunk or wasted. While he was there, the driver had gotten out, staggered around and then went back in the car. I hadn't seen the driver because he was laying down inside. I had considered going in the car and turning on the flashers, but it had all the hallmarks of a drug situation and I didn't want to leave the protection of the Juke.</p><p>Survival often depends on positioning. Drugs mean weapons. Things can go sideways really, really fast when you're on foot.</p><p>So I sat there, I called 911 again and they couldn't give me an ETA for the cops. 90 minutes? That's nuts.</p><p>Finally, the guy woke up enough to turn on his lights and start the car. I drove around him and escaped. Losing nearly an hour wrecked my workout. Oof. Still, I was glad to have provided a warning to the 40 or so cars that drove by me while I was there.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Buy A Gun</h3><p>This drove home the need for home defense. When seconds count, the cops are only 45 minutes away.</p><p>I can't even imagine what it's like in NYC where they are operating at about half strength.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">NYC Update</h3><p>I saw an article this morning about Mayor Eric Adams questioning the whole sanctuary city thing. Apparently, NYC now has 180,000 illegals. That means NYC has more illegals than the US Army has infantry. Imagine trying to deport them. </p><p>You'd have to be a complete idiot to stay in NYC now. Interviews with the illegals being dropped off in San Diego show that many of them have plane tickets, bought by you and me, taking them mostly to NYC and Chicago.</p><p>If we were smart, we'd skip the plane tickets and just stuff them into box cars and send them by freight rail. That journey couldn't possibly be worse than the one they endured getting to the border. </p><p>If we didn't have a death wish, we'd close the border.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-36863372419220787822024-02-29T08:09:00.000-08:002024-02-29T08:33:41.930-08:00The Illegal Invasion Comes To My Doorstep<p>In my Twitter feed yesterday came news about Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA) asking the Federal government to send money to San Diego because we're being overwhelmed with illegals and the city has run out of money to take care of them. <a href="https://www.butler.senate.gov/press-releases/butler-pushes-admin-for-additional-migrant-shelter-and-service-funds/" target="_blank">Here's the letter</a>. Below is the paragraph that blew my mind.</p><blockquote><p>States, including California, continue to see significant numbers of migrant encounters at our southern border. The situation in California became even more pressing this past week. In San Diego, a transitional assistance center that was serving up to 1,200 migrants per day was forced to shutter after local resources provided by the County ran out. Without the intervention this transitional facility was able to provide, <b>Border Patrol will now be forced to release an estimated 800-1000 migrants a day without orientation or basic humanitarian assistance at regional transit stations</b>. There is an urgent need for additional SSP funding to ensure that these migrants have access to essential temporary services, including food and shelter. While I am optimistic that Congressional leaders will soon pass a full-year appropriations bill, it is imperative that the Administration acts now.</p></blockquote><p>Emphasis mine. <b><i>800-1000 a day!</i></b> That's 25,000 new homeless people in the city per month.</p><p>I wondered if it was real. I know how the game is played with government money. You cry about a crisis, make it seem bigger than it is and if you frighten the bag men in DC, they give you some coins. A little searching on YouTube got me this video.</p>
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<p>I looked up the Iris Transit Station in San Ysidro and decided to pay it a visit. I'd seen some tweets about San Diego hotels being bought out by the government to house illegals, so I dug around a bit and heard that the Ramada in Mission Valley was one of them. Looking at the reviews for the hotel, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/@32.7630414,-117.1590828,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!14m5!1m4!2m3!1sChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURWNklQQ2VREAE!2m1!1s0x0:0x37f40183fd0e79e0?hl=en&entry=ttu" target="_blank">I found this one</a>.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Booked several months ago. Got a confirmation email 3 days before. Showed up and was not allowed in by security. They told me it was closed and is "not a hotel right now" and hasn't been for months.</p><p>They did not attempt to contact me to tell me I no longer had a room. Was left to scramble to find a new hotel at the last minute.</p><p>They would not even allow me to talk to someone on property because it was being used as a "federal facility". Something very shady is going on here.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>It was on the way to San Ysidro, so I swung by and took some photos. Bingo.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6RHuB_f9uxKv1eUfdT-bC84OLJJAsqXe6t6ZsXbGPwviBZpOecQzTYp_LPqHa94rmZ27SfmLycwQC31clpoGSy4X0C6PwPX_Hq-kfIU0HvS8BhotB7hJNnMNgfxLH-R7bmQskwOSANT1yd5TiAxgjYebziNiogm-LqDFf-psXM2bKtq-oQ/s1200/PXL_20240228_182920869.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1200" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6RHuB_f9uxKv1eUfdT-bC84OLJJAsqXe6t6ZsXbGPwviBZpOecQzTYp_LPqHa94rmZ27SfmLycwQC31clpoGSy4X0C6PwPX_Hq-kfIU0HvS8BhotB7hJNnMNgfxLH-R7bmQskwOSANT1yd5TiAxgjYebziNiogm-LqDFf-psXM2bKtq-oQ/w400-h348/PXL_20240228_182920869.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>It's blocked off with a locked privacy fence. There's no construction happening, but plenty of people inside.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Iris Transit Station looked exactly like what you see in the video above. I watched an unmarked, white bus disgorging 50-60 illegals into the parking lot and saw Border Patrol guys inside the bus. I didn't take any photos of the lost and forlorn illegals wandering around, trying to figure out what they were supposed to do next. It was heartbreaking to see. Photographing them would have been ghoulish.</p><p>The Ramada is less than 10 miles from my house. Iris is a good deal farther away, but illegals are also being dumped at the Old Town Transit Center, which is also less than 10 miles away from me.</p><p>The invasion has come to my doorstep.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Hate, Not Love</h3><p>This is hate, not love. The secular left, allied with far-left Catholic Charities and other greedy NGOs, isn't doing this because they care about "migrants." There's no way you could see a young family of illegals - mom, dad and three kids under 12 - wandering around in a daze at the transit center and think this was the product of compassion.</p><p>This is the demon child of intersectionality and the hunger for power.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFuzRI2Ea5jnVqdge32M441kN387z-LdPlwQpE8u_ui9-H-84oVVJSb5Ket1ZbhECO_E7ebLWzD0qVQfAPwOu-YRyuEqWrGJ45Un3wJturdSEJu3LEnZTRPhKUGky-8ZJxMdOvXVuSJu26H86oMMAQ_wWAlIe5OMpni2rkUixTX1TBEIQsg/s826/Intersection-domination-and-oppression.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="826" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFuzRI2Ea5jnVqdge32M441kN387z-LdPlwQpE8u_ui9-H-84oVVJSb5Ket1ZbhECO_E7ebLWzD0qVQfAPwOu-YRyuEqWrGJ45Un3wJturdSEJu3LEnZTRPhKUGky-8ZJxMdOvXVuSJu26H86oMMAQ_wWAlIe5OMpni2rkUixTX1TBEIQsg/w400-h375/Intersection-domination-and-oppression.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>Evil is on the top, good is on the bottom.<br />You can't make an earthly paradise omelet without breaking the lives of a couple hundred thousand future voters by dumping them on the streets.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>In order for good to triumph over evil, evil must become a minority so that evil can never again seize power through elections. The illegals dumped on the streets of our cities are nothing more than cannon fodder infantry units for the secular left. Instead of rifles, they carry future votes.</p><p>Oddly enough, the most chilling thing about what is happening is the Ramada. Our local, secular-lefty government has commandeered a hotel with our money and then put a privacy fence around it so no one can see what they're doing. This is happening in plain sight.</p><p>They <b><i>hate</i></b> us.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-58273782818161002582024-02-28T08:34:00.000-08:002024-02-29T08:02:25.470-08:00There Are Two Ways To Return To The Truth<p> ... one would be through the re-emergence of a muscular Catholicism that defends truth and objective reality. Since that's a decade or two away when our newest crop of mostly conservative priests take the reins from the effeminate soyboys who are in charge right now, the other option would be a Secular Reformation.</p><p>Secular theology is organized around intersectionality.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFuzRI2Ea5jnVqdge32M441kN387z-LdPlwQpE8u_ui9-H-84oVVJSb5Ket1ZbhECO_E7ebLWzD0qVQfAPwOu-YRyuEqWrGJ45Un3wJturdSEJu3LEnZTRPhKUGky-8ZJxMdOvXVuSJu26H86oMMAQ_wWAlIe5OMpni2rkUixTX1TBEIQsg/s826/Intersection-domination-and-oppression.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="826" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFuzRI2Ea5jnVqdge32M441kN387z-LdPlwQpE8u_ui9-H-84oVVJSb5Ket1ZbhECO_E7ebLWzD0qVQfAPwOu-YRyuEqWrGJ45Un3wJturdSEJu3LEnZTRPhKUGky-8ZJxMdOvXVuSJu26H86oMMAQ_wWAlIe5OMpni2rkUixTX1TBEIQsg/w400-h375/Intersection-domination-and-oppression.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>Evil is on the top, good is on the bottom.<br />Other than my age, I'm pure evil.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>The intersectional catechism of secularism puts social justice ahead of truth. A couple of data points will suffice to show it.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Google's Massive AI Effort, Gemini</h3><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemGGSk7tR8jGUEM9HtVwA1Ei1GVwHYYj9oLx4rRETrZKckErnt0xRIeIQHP4D5gl-WpkM4MTmWvbdQwdYqKjRw9Yw7ZiAyIidWMcg7eNukA0UflWka91GlgQOla7nYAbk9PBR8BlvDNHsJgvOw-c_fuPfY7xSRfbD5DKbGP0ow_n49B_cqw/s938/GG7qfBzXYAAN_hg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="938" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemGGSk7tR8jGUEM9HtVwA1Ei1GVwHYYj9oLx4rRETrZKckErnt0xRIeIQHP4D5gl-WpkM4MTmWvbdQwdYqKjRw9Yw7ZiAyIidWMcg7eNukA0UflWka91GlgQOla7nYAbk9PBR8BlvDNHsJgvOw-c_fuPfY7xSRfbD5DKbGP0ow_n49B_cqw/w400-h229/GG7qfBzXYAAN_hg.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Democrats</h3><div><br /></div>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Our Universities</h3><div><br /></div>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Rachel Spraker (she/they) is the Assistant Vice President for Equity and Inclusive Excellence with the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Virginia. Here she is discussing Allyhood and the Toxicity of Whiteness. Just another example of the… <a href="https://t.co/vorg8nHlEq">pic.twitter.com/vorg8nHlEq</a></p>— The Jefferson Council (@TheJeffersonC) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJeffersonC/status/1761142199536754751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">The BBC</h3><div><br /></div>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Scientific American</h3><div><br /></div>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Rescuing The Truth</h3><p>I could go on and on and on with examples of powerful organizations proudly and vigorously spreading the Gospel of Secularism. Gemini itself was designed as a massive evangelization engine. By giving schoolchildren ChromeBooks, driving them to use Google and then putting Gemini results at the top of their searches, the social justice catechism of the secular world would be spread far and wide. Good luck rooting it out after that.</p><p>Social Justice is built on a foundation of lies. It posits that moral goodness resides in group failure and group success is proof of moral evil. If you're secular and you have some affection for the truth, you're facing an effort on the scale of the Reformation to take secularism back from these people. Right now, they have all the power and all the money and they don't give a tinker's cuss about the truth.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-11141559546529694972024-02-26T04:46:00.000-08:002024-02-26T06:04:56.417-08:00Why I Yell About Secularism All The Time<p>I am the youngest of four. I had two brothers and still have one sister. Both of my brothers died as addicts, my oldest brother at 29 and the other, just a few years ago, in his 60s. Both spent a decent number of years of their adult lives as drug dealers. In fact, my oldest brother, we'll call him Jack, was murdered by fellow drug dealers when he injected the cocaine instead of selling it.</p><p>I only had a few adult conversations with Jack as he was so much older and died so young, but I had plenty with my other brother, who we'll call Jeff. We were all raised Catholic and went to Catholic schools. Jeff had bachelor's degrees in both pharmacy and pharmacology. Jack had gotten a full scholarship to Yale. We were all told how smart we were more than enough times to make us smug and self-assured in our smarteriness. I'm still plenty smug, as you know.</p><p>Raised in the Catholic tradition of ethics and morality derived from logic, observation and revealed truth, Jeff and I had many conversations about the ethics and morality of his life. In addition to selling drugs, Jeff also slept with almost any woman who would have him. He once bragged to me that he had slept with his boss, a woman 20 years his senior.</p><p>Jeff was thoroughly secular. He sneered at all that religious mumbo-jumbo for the same reasons many today do - if it was true and valuable, how come its practitioners weren't living perfect lives? When we discussed ethics and morality, it was always from the secular point of view because appeals to an external, objective moral authority were a waste of breath.</p><p>Jeff sold drugs because someone was going to be selling the drugs and it might as well be him. Jeff slept with the women because they let him. He once told me that four different women had abortions by him. After a moment he added, "Well, it takes two to tango," meaning that they wouldn't have needed an abortion if they hadn't made the choice to have sex with him.</p><p>When I write things like this on <a href="https://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2024/02/secularism-produces-trash-science.html" target="_blank">these blog posts</a>, I suppose that I'm reliving those conversations with Jeff where I simply could not think of an argument to challenge his sociopathy.</p><blockquote><p>My exit questions for the secularists are this: Why was any of this wrong? Derive your answer from first principles. What provides the guardrails to put an end to this? Why pursue the truth? Is there such a thing as the truth?</p></blockquote><p>I'm begging you to tell me what I should have said. I used to tell him that he was hurting other people. That posed a trivially simple moral problem for the secularist to solve. Well, what of it? They wanted to hurt themselves. Someone was going to make a buck off of it, why not him? We were all going to die anyway, what difference did it make? Besides, he never sold to people with really serious drug habits, only to recreational users.</p><p>I'm not sure if that last was true, but it hardly mattered. As someone with an addictive streak myself, recreational is just a point farther up the fast-moving river that ends in a waterfall onto rocks. If you're helping the addict get his fix, you don't know where he is on that river, but you've definitely helped him to get closer to the falls.</p><p>So, my friends, what answer should I have given? What's the magic, secular turn of logic that stops the sociopath?</p><p>If you can't solve that riddle, what's your plan for surviving in a world where people like Jeff are in the majority? How are you going to equip your children to survive in a world with even more Jeffs than there are today? That's clearly what the cultural trend lines are showing.</p><p>Now that the secular world has defeated us superstitious Catholics, we might want to find an answer to those questions and pretty soon at that.</p><p>Or maybe we could return to the Church.</p><p>Nah. That's a stupid idea. Forget I said it.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiustfciZp5B-HjGz8yCT95y6tWHVQgpYqmPEYVK36DCCLnkzjyUkUiMc8yDpYmt4_X4yPFOdF7Rf8ESZWkfoUqsA18zNaIzu3z7ljA8Sh2spwwvAg0SooQk0fVw5w5Qd2NSpwtFdJLQlHYsgVvST7i8cmug_sRunYhmPwabtKNh8lcmB0Nig/s720/GHICINTbQAAuMfR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="405" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiustfciZp5B-HjGz8yCT95y6tWHVQgpYqmPEYVK36DCCLnkzjyUkUiMc8yDpYmt4_X4yPFOdF7Rf8ESZWkfoUqsA18zNaIzu3z7ljA8Sh2spwwvAg0SooQk0fVw5w5Qd2NSpwtFdJLQlHYsgVvST7i8cmug_sRunYhmPwabtKNh8lcmB0Nig/w225-h400/GHICINTbQAAuMfR.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>LOL! Talk about delusional!</i></td></tr></tbody></table>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-34095125940029971492024-02-24T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-26T06:08:49.598-08:00Secularism Produces Trash Science<p>I'm not going to go into a description of the recent revelations about Google's Gemini AI system. At the bottom of this post are just some examples of the neo-Nazi, racist trash and the sexually degenerate filth it returned to various prompts. If you want to learn more about it, the information is easy to find.</p><p>Instead, I want to point out that everyone who worked on the Gemini project was a college graduate, most of whom had degrees in science and engineering fields. If you think that secularism will produce good science, that you can maintain the purity of science without an overarching, objective moral system, then you need to explain mainstream science and engineering descending into sexual degeneracy and racial madness at the same time the culture is ditching Christianity.</p><p>Google Gemini is just a tiny example. <i>Scientific American</i>, loaded as it is recently with neo-Nazi musings about race, is equally warped as are many professional medical organizations who promote the poisoning and mutilation of girls in the name of "gender affirmation."</p><p>My exit questions for the secularists are this: Why was any of this wrong? Derive your answer from first principles. What provides the guardrails to put an end to this? Why pursue the truth? Is there such a thing as the truth?</p><p>Before you talk about slavery and the Church, I'll just point to the fact that it was Christianity and only Christianity that put an end to slavery. Even the Confederacy constantly grappled with the moral contradictions of their "peculiar institution." Had the United States been secular, there would have been no need for the South to struggle with the morality of slavery and no need for the Civil War. Without Genesis 1:27, we would have been no different than the Aztecs or the Dahomey, who never understood objections to slavery.</p><p>My hypothesis from the previous blog post still stands. In the absence of an objective morality, codified in a catechism, derived from logic and a set of first principles, you will <i>always</i> end up here.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">A Sampling Of Gemini AI Responses</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuWTFjF9B05SEmvX4AGovBhbQMLOnNiYHts5ObENqJ1XbRLSWfNkgDxqFv-6NRrrdzM33uRa0zuRF8uHgstNlCjUsJgj45hcUE8I3JUEoHzkkRBoHu6rIiKJCK2fSGpHX6lW4fWYnJ_wVGCKk8v4FzBLPWzyKJnIoO69Q9q7ctTasxiY-uoQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="1516" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuWTFjF9B05SEmvX4AGovBhbQMLOnNiYHts5ObENqJ1XbRLSWfNkgDxqFv-6NRrrdzM33uRa0zuRF8uHgstNlCjUsJgj45hcUE8I3JUEoHzkkRBoHu6rIiKJCK2fSGpHX6lW4fWYnJ_wVGCKk8v4FzBLPWzyKJnIoO69Q9q7ctTasxiY-uoQ=w400-h374" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXKOvGO9imZKO0p0AAhDOLPAwyzlk38Ab7V4EZHh0XdTBwE-X8V-YZmgfp23Gl2t3bKaeEWWK3g_tk_l-l7-HvLnj1MrKlMnrsP4LDJWik5qvG_Qdbol1ChWxmN4DQOr6g-6NCDtb8_QLZCALMFCDvAp_YiKfVHHODMtjuiiJRWitOmFuzBA" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68Uqli4uin3fvqB6YdI_X3JouSe1kQVwwa2tV0fJAzP8FGUN__Xk95JTU2kj-B0YABu8Qk34WjEQn0AKwOMhJvJewL03gPjTkjeS396GsdzbfjbKfecC3DJ_3oSk0GKFmF3dtPZMJ15Pft7DLvmLMHYiPxZ1R75IvMKDXAzfef2U5UCjd7Q/s670/secular%20science.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="670" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68Uqli4uin3fvqB6YdI_X3JouSe1kQVwwa2tV0fJAzP8FGUN__Xk95JTU2kj-B0YABu8Qk34WjEQn0AKwOMhJvJewL03gPjTkjeS396GsdzbfjbKfecC3DJ_3oSk0GKFmF3dtPZMJ15Pft7DLvmLMHYiPxZ1R75IvMKDXAzfef2U5UCjd7Q/w400-h399/secular%20science.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Who and what you serve matters. If you serve the secular world, there's no reason at all why your research should pursue truth. It's far more likely, as we're seeing with the corruption and degeneracy at <i>Scientific American</i>, that research will be pursued in order to provide rationalizations for doing whatever powerful people want done. Without an objective basis for a moral order or even belief in the existence of an objective moral order, there are no guard rails to prevent you from claiming absolute nonsense like that above.</p><p>I've been ranting for a long time on this blog that the Catholic Church is the last barrier to out-and-out illogical chaos. This story, along with reading Scott Hann's excellent <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Sweet-Home-Journey-Catholicism/dp/0898704782" target="_blank">Rome Sweet Home</a>, where he and his wife followed logic back across the Tiber, made me see all my ranting in a different light.</p><p>Without an objective moral order, why wouldn't you expect to see science degenerate into superstition and charlatanism? There's nothing to stop it. One glance at the mountains of funding being poured into climate science to the starvation of other fields is enough to convince you that money, even in science, follows political power. In the absence of an objective moral order, one you live under, but did not create, it's only natural that a scientist would prioritize his well-being and that of his family over any notions of serving "truth."</p><p>If you can earn $190,000 generating one more study telling us the world is going to end from <strike>Global Warming</strike> Climate Change, but you can only earn $105,000 studying astrophysics, which one are you going to choose? Those power boats don't buy themselves, you know. Only a chump would forgo a payday to pursue truth when we can't really be sure there is such a thing as truth.</p><p>It's not that <i>Scientific American</i> and our education industry have become corrupt, it's that they have left the spiritual nature of the world behind. Their corruption was a natural byproduct of that.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-45386694947009426582024-02-20T16:57:00.000-08:002024-02-20T17:00:14.501-08:00180,000 Is Greater Than 170,000<p> ... and NYC looks like this with 170,000 illegals.</p>
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<p>The first thing that jumped out at me was the fat, black, female cop in the back who held her baton high and looked lost throughout the video. I'm not sure what her plan was if things heated up a bit more, but I'm pretty sure running wasn't part of it.</p><p>The second thing that hit me was how much this looked like a prison riot.</p><p>The other thing that hit me were the numbers. I only counted 3 NYPD. The rest looked like rent-a-guards. The range of the potential combatants is so short that drawing your revolver and shooting was out of the question. If the illegals rushed them, those cops were dead.</p><p>Under these conditions, I cannot believe NYPD recruiting is going well.</p><p>Add to that, the number of illegals in the city is growing as reinforcements continue to be shipped in from the border.</p><p>I've said before that you'd have to be crazy to stay in the NYPD. Now I'd say that you'd have to be crazy to stay in NYC. This is only going one direction for the foreseeable future and that direction is down.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-103332926998368532024-02-18T08:34:00.000-08:002024-02-18T08:34:43.828-08:00You Are Saved By Your Works<p> ... because you're the only variable in the equation.</p><p>I've never understood the position some Christians take that you can do nothing on your own and you cannot be saved by your own actions. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but as far as I can tell, when it comes to salvation, there are only two actors: you and God. Since He is constant and His Universe is a given for all people everywhere, the only variable is you, your decisions and your actions.</p><p>Yes, I do believe that Jesus died for our sins, but that's a constant for all people everywhere as well. Since you're forgiven only if you confess and repent, or at least make a valiant effort to repent, again you're the variable in the equation.</p><p>If we aren't saved by our own actions, then what was the point of free will?</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-YiA5JIjmTPs4VY8fbT2t0iXDgELs0ON6QvxWWJtNdd-xWS0LrwvSWdJu7cKd4AA8KmNQDr2lp5XFGLtJrTARZBygBTA5ECYROt2m9dfyhiatwhNfapJgxwDjSj4SLBHr8BHgtT00t_4oJnRHBYsO0SEIz0igE71fqhA50Yn-1wCXZzJ5iQ/s1024/old%20man.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-YiA5JIjmTPs4VY8fbT2t0iXDgELs0ON6QvxWWJtNdd-xWS0LrwvSWdJu7cKd4AA8KmNQDr2lp5XFGLtJrTARZBygBTA5ECYROt2m9dfyhiatwhNfapJgxwDjSj4SLBHr8BHgtT00t_4oJnRHBYsO0SEIz0igE71fqhA50Yn-1wCXZzJ5iQ/w400-h400/old%20man.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>If the Big Dude got up on the wrong side of the bed the morning of your death, you're totally screwed no matter how you lived your life?</i></td></tr></tbody></table>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-49540755487751823542024-02-17T14:44:00.000-08:002024-02-17T14:44:01.424-08:00Redneck Racoons Eschew Safety<p>You can tell because they're not wearing goggles while welding.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2Zye7RmyRAIMwCrRFI9Zrr7yrMAtbmFQQHozuenE2fFDnY8MAkDJlhO0mRBiQo1fUCA_8axH1EvT9n1OkfG63v28rBO9nGE6sOylX642vNCipg29MLiXVr8y_ctPyKefvXc3hHG_FmklT9zkTihzS9Vj5JLl4xOqOoeKPna5IsuKB1LF0A/s1792/raccoon%20rednecks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1792" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2Zye7RmyRAIMwCrRFI9Zrr7yrMAtbmFQQHozuenE2fFDnY8MAkDJlhO0mRBiQo1fUCA_8axH1EvT9n1OkfG63v28rBO9nGE6sOylX642vNCipg29MLiXVr8y_ctPyKefvXc3hHG_FmklT9zkTihzS9Vj5JLl4xOqOoeKPna5IsuKB1LF0A/w400-h229/raccoon%20rednecks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>H/T: Tim for giving me the idea for this prompt: generate an image of redneck racoons making sculptures out of scrap metal in a bayou.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-47858069070854676662024-02-15T15:17:00.000-08:002024-02-15T15:17:16.725-08:00Recycling Label<p>We had out annual Mardi Gras party on Tuesday and it was a ton of fun. 40-50 people, gumbo, crawfish etouffee and a smoked rib roast. I managed to wake up on Ash Wednesday with only a modest hangover.</p><p>Wife kitteh asked me to make 8 1/2 x 11 labels for our trash cans, one for trash and one for recycling. I got an inspiration and asked ChatGPT to make one image of a family of raccoons in the bayou and then an image of a redneck making sculptures from scrap metal in the bayou. From those, I used Photoshop to make labels. Here's the one for the recycling.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYI8l3b1DRCKUDCthV15JydAtn1SMA6JbFXGLUrxdFyF2EvyyY6Mp5tLi8DQ1hVQP6Pq7xiIaFVPGEKxVdGos85-V64YEkVYCrJCOaOSxSTIviJV1KAkA4frMVHXKSupG2IjlmAH5NtKuX8ZmVPSmJeCxHkB4PBL3NCc36iKoWWszj-w5uw/s792/recycling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="792" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYI8l3b1DRCKUDCthV15JydAtn1SMA6JbFXGLUrxdFyF2EvyyY6Mp5tLi8DQ1hVQP6Pq7xiIaFVPGEKxVdGos85-V64YEkVYCrJCOaOSxSTIviJV1KAkA4frMVHXKSupG2IjlmAH5NtKuX8ZmVPSmJeCxHkB4PBL3NCc36iKoWWszj-w5uw/w400-h309/recycling.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>It was amazing how I could come up with a fun and unique label in less than 5 minutes using ChatGPT.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-61062487302958713192024-02-13T08:18:00.000-08:002024-02-13T08:54:50.416-08:00When The Church No Longer Preaches Sin, We All Become Prey<p> From <a href="https://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-blogiversary-reflection-on-where-we.html" target="_blank">my blogiversary post</a>:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><b>Hypothesis:</b> Without an objective model of reality, civilization will collapse into barbarism.</p><p><b>My argument:</b> The Catholic Church is the keeper of that model. There's no particular reason why the people running the Church should continue to defend or espouse that model. If they abandon it in favor of flaccid niceness, all bets are off for all of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
<p>From today's Twitter feed:</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">AIN’T DIVERSITY GRAND‼️ CLAIMING ASYLUM, THEY ARE ALREADY ENTERING THE U.S. AS HARDENED CRIMINALS❗️SOON BIGGER THAN THE SINALOA CARTEL…DEADLY ALLIANCE BREWING BETWEEN MS-13 AND BLOODTHIRSTY TREN DE ARAGUA GANG BEHIND NYC CELLPHONE ROBBERIES, FBI FEARS…The FBI is warning that… <a href="https://t.co/JwnOcERKkF">https://t.co/JwnOcERKkF</a> <a href="https://t.co/AZR3HMFQiw">pic.twitter.com/AZR3HMFQiw</a></p>— TheReal_AnTheFacts©™🇺🇸☦️🇬🇷 (@Real_AnTheFacts) <a href="https://twitter.com/Real_AnTheFacts/status/1757406855217766895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
<p>Here is a snippet of that tweet with the verbs emphasized.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>The FBI is <b>warning</b> that MS-13 gang members, such as leader Ãlmer Canales, could team up with Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that has embedded themselves with a surge of migrants crossing the southern border...</p><p>Tren de Aragua, which law enforcement is <b>warning</b> is rapidly expanding its criminal empire with a spate of brazen phone robberies in the five boroughs, is now a priority for the FBI, Special Agent in Charge John Morales said...</p><p>Morales, the special agent in charge of the El Paso division in Texas, said the agency is <b>closely monitoring</b> Tren de Aragua’s growth and <b>is concerned</b> about it forming alliances with existing networks...</p><p>“While these gangs wouldn’t normally mix, it’s always <b>going to be a concern</b> as the gang [Tren de Aragua] expands in strength and establishes a foothold,” said Morales.</p><p>“Right now we are <b>working with</b> our local law enforcement partners and <b>sharing intelligence</b> in order to stop the growth of Tren de Aragua.” ...</p><p>🔥 (T)he FBI <b>is now pleading</b> with Venezuelan migrants to report gang members, offering them witness protection and temporary visas if they do.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Well, that will certainly stop the predators. Or maybe not.</p><p>I've read interviews with black gang members in London who talk about the effect African migrants have had on crime there. They all say the Africans' level of violence is on an entirely different plane from what London used to have. The sheer ferocity and amoral, predatory behavior of the newcomers has forced the existing London gangs to ratchet up their own levels of violence to match.</p><p>Meanwhile, God is love. Love is love. We must love and give and accept. Radical inclusion is the way. At least that's where the Church is right now. Lambs to the slaughter, as it were.</p><p>We lack the mental framework to deal with the predators among us. That's absolutely clear from the reaction to the illegals attacking the cops in NYC and then the illegals in the dormitory tents going at it with each other. Everyone, all over the world is just the same as the people we have coffee with in our Ivy League faculty lounges, right?</p><p>We in the Church used to believe in Satan and hell and evil. The world was tough so we had to be tough, particularly men. Not so much any more. Without that structure, we cannot cope with the raw violence of MS-13 and the rest.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIAS-SrNsa-upcRx-LGLzwL_BANUaif2drnUtf5j5FGkUMnFb7JTrwhSLNHaT9K7LdXKOt9Ek915FJBc-LIo5iRVhSD_zIaAtZoir28Uvi_E6BiF-mbRUzwHeja7PqbUiEcl1c-2XZgehyphenhyphenz1eel3jZ-631VnIVa4RlK6j_1c3InvuXvS4bDg/s634/GGOQNilWwAAb2mF.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="634" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIAS-SrNsa-upcRx-LGLzwL_BANUaif2drnUtf5j5FGkUMnFb7JTrwhSLNHaT9K7LdXKOt9Ek915FJBc-LIo5iRVhSD_zIaAtZoir28Uvi_E6BiF-mbRUzwHeja7PqbUiEcl1c-2XZgehyphenhyphenz1eel3jZ-631VnIVa4RlK6j_1c3InvuXvS4bDg/w400-h225/GGOQNilWwAAb2mF.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>Remain calm, citizens. Law enforcement is on the job. We're concerned so we're warning, pleading and monitoring. You have nothing to fear. They just want jobs and peace.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Bonus Data Point</h3><p>Dig <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/11/metro/assaults-on-nypd-cops-have-escalated-to-record-breaking-totals-in-latest-show-of-anti-police-sentiment-full-blown-epidemic/" target="_blank">this from NYC</a>.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>City cops are getting beaten at a record-setting pace — a disturbing and dangerous trend fueled by radical protests, an influx of criminal migrants, bail reform, anti-cop rhetoric and soft-on-crime prosecutors, experts told The Post.</p><p>The number of cops hurt by suspects surged 20% in 2022, when 4,724 uniformed officers suffered injuries in attacks, compared to 3,933 in 2021.</p><p>But the law enforcement nightmare grew worse last year, when 4,077 cops were hurt by suspects in just the first nine months of 2023 — on pace for a record-breaking 5,436 injuries, the latest NYPD stats show.</p></blockquote><p>Note that it's more attacks on fewer officers because the NYPD has been hemorrhaging cops. Per officer, the stats are even worse than the article suggests.</p><p>You'd have to be nuts to stay in the NYPD. As it dwindles ... what? Do we just practice more radical inclusion, Bishop?</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">A Super Special Bonus Data Point That Needs No Explanation</h3><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANCwxDZFxX7C0MD9YgwHRGeGTKjaLTldw1BEZe6YRw1sUyNdx49GGlmoymh5a35mAWKY5QP4Z1K0WsEqKz5iWmf2iPd9zPoZ-7Pfgv1aQP8gV_8zGN_6zYQodPZxT1rH8V5NQRpmnKNjyHAASJHgcYqrR1fefT7EKKpBN6MghKwrlvzxFyw/s543/GGDxqzjWIAAXYxl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="533" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANCwxDZFxX7C0MD9YgwHRGeGTKjaLTldw1BEZe6YRw1sUyNdx49GGlmoymh5a35mAWKY5QP4Z1K0WsEqKz5iWmf2iPd9zPoZ-7Pfgv1aQP8gV_8zGN_6zYQodPZxT1rH8V5NQRpmnKNjyHAASJHgcYqrR1fefT7EKKpBN6MghKwrlvzxFyw/w393-h400/GGDxqzjWIAAXYxl.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><p></p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-13903452778567573472024-02-11T09:22:00.000-08:002024-02-11T12:32:08.132-08:00A Blogiversary Reflection On Where We Are<p>It are my blogiversary today! I started ranting online 18 years ago today. That's a long time to be trying to figure out how to avoid ending sentences with propositions. Or was that prepositions? Whatever.</p><p>I know that much of my writing over the last year has dealt with the crisis in Catholic thought. I can also tell from the lack of engagement that this is not a gripping topic for you. I'd like to explain my underlying hypothesis to that particular ranting.</p><p><b>Hypothesis:</b> Without an objective model of reality, civilization will collapse into barbarism.</p><p><b>My argument:</b> The Catholic Church is the keeper of that model*. There's no particular reason why the people running the Church should continue to defend or espouse that model. If they abandon it in favor of flaccid niceness, all bets are off for all of us.</p><p><b>A Secondary Argument:</b> Boomers are almost completely unaware of what is happening to the younger generations, particularly Gen Z. This is natural. My parents had no insight into the rock and roll generation and their efforts to understand us were non-native. That is, they used 1940s mental models to try to comprehend Jimi Hendrix and Haight-Ashbury, with predictable results.</p><p>This is the source of my railing against the sermons I hear in church which are an endless, verbal slurry of weak mewling telling me that God is love. Meanwhile, visions of girls with phalloplasty scars dance in my head. Within 5 miles of my church, there are medical centers butchering girls in ways the Nazis would have found nauseating. My clergy, Boomers, every man Jack of them, couldn't describe what is happening there if you held a gun to their heads.</p><p><b>A Tertiary Argument:</b> The Elites in politics, education and entertainment have discarded the foundations of our civilization. They are morally coasting on the fumes of the Church's objective model of reality. Taking DEI to its logical conclusion, for example, it is a moral good to allow tens of millions of migrants to invade our country and completely remake our society. Since they no longer value civilization, they cannot see what's coming.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5J2pSEYqieJhNqgh68YIkQh7x7C_OXg66nQEZH8V8gbiFtBex63lhBCSI5_ZGtdD80eXw_QSm29KigrsREOQmfh3LFOrpDhsB75my2FKfqQEBL-phhrmwHT_CCu5Umg6zIWcfnIWaJjRw5qBrppyWbkrbwdvv_OrAfWRs8aVnU7ZhAsCDQ/s1024/DALL%C2%B7E%202023-10-28%2010.47.44.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5J2pSEYqieJhNqgh68YIkQh7x7C_OXg66nQEZH8V8gbiFtBex63lhBCSI5_ZGtdD80eXw_QSm29KigrsREOQmfh3LFOrpDhsB75my2FKfqQEBL-phhrmwHT_CCu5Umg6zIWcfnIWaJjRw5qBrppyWbkrbwdvv_OrAfWRs8aVnU7ZhAsCDQ/w400-h400/DALL%C2%B7E%202023-10-28%2010.47.44.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>How about an Indigenous Peoples' Pride Parade? Human sacrifices included. Jews and Christians will be the, err, "guests of honor."</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Below is what's not just coming, but already here.</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Italy - North African Muslim walks down the street with a machete, he had just dismembered two people. This is the new normal 🇮🇹🕌 <a href="https://t.co/nFJaz7JyHE">pic.twitter.com/nFJaz7JyHE</a></p>— 🇬🇧RonEnglish🇬🇧🏴 (@RonEng1ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonEng1ish/status/1756688963501223972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
<p>That's an apex predator if ever I've seen one. He reminds me of the reef sharks I saw while diving off Grand Cayman. He's totally in charge of his surroundings. The other fish leave him alone and don't worry unless they themselves are his target. Each fish is on their own against the predators. You can see videos of that all day, every day from everywhere across the civilized world.</p><p>My hypothesis is that we don't have a framework to understand or cope with this. What we have is a pastiche of wishful thinking and cowardice dressed up as virtue.</p><p>One example to end today's anniversary rant.</p><p>Over a ten-year period, some 1500 girls were raped by Muslim gangs in Rotherham, England. The authorities and the press knew it was happening. The same thing has happened all across Europe and is happening right now. Discussing it with friends, we've all wondered where the men are. Why don't the men protect their daughters and do so with masculine vigor?</p><p>The role of men in a healthy, civilized society is dictated by biological realities and ordered by its underlying, objective model. We have discarded that model and those realities in favor of bizarre, feminist fantasies. Biology didn't change, so Muslim men, trained to see the infidel whores as their rightful prey, use their superior aggression and strength to do as they please with the girls. We wander around in a confused daze trying to figure out what is happening and how to deal with it. None of it makes sense any more because we've thrown out the necessary framework.</p><p>The Church was the keeper of that framework. It lost its nerve and collapsed.</p><p>Anyway, that's where my thinking is taking me these days. Thanks for coming along with me.</p><p>* - I <a href="https://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-value-of-christian-study.html" target="_blank">described this in nauseating detail here</a>.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-64074761304981974692024-02-10T10:29:00.000-08:002024-02-10T10:31:47.447-08:00Trust The Plan!<p>Weight loss is absolutely unforgiving. I've never really tried it before now and over the last 6 weeks, it's been a real struggle.</p><p>I turn 62 in August. The year before I turned 60, I set weightlifting goals for myself that I managed to meet. They were 60# dumbbell curls, 500# incline leg presses and 90# tricep extensions. I worked my core as well, not understanding how you get 6-pack abs. </p><p>As the saying goes, 6-pack abs are made in the kitchen. You can build your core muscles as much as you want, but you'll never see them if they're covered by fat as mine were.</p><p>I wrecked my body hitting those age 60 goals, so the year of 60-61 was lost to injury recovery. I finally recovered and now I'm back at it, but this time, my goals include weight loss. I started 2024 at 221#. I've set a goal of 200# by 62. I'm not sure if that will reveal a 6-pack, but we'll see.</p><p>I've been scrupulous about my diet. Cottage cheese, yogurt, no sweets and so on. At the same time, I'm feasting on protein, trying to consume 240g a day. I'm still drinking a bit, so there remains some slack in my diet.</p><p>Anywho, earlier this week, I was right on schedule, bouncing around in the 217-218 range. Today? 220.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8eGphsczGmzRR_bQAD_a70eXE-y8TZz9eLkRZEg-Shf9rQGF3xFbeKkFFs4Ued9GX8TxdOBRMqu2QQ4u8wC9BrKfk6ApSpXIGDiddS0BX9WWjC_g9eEheXRnhHpEe1GARLHYCdsyKy_UCXz5hVfSfuwQ7XYicnHMhBVbHktQHoojVc96EWw/s1024/lightly%20overweight%20man.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8eGphsczGmzRR_bQAD_a70eXE-y8TZz9eLkRZEg-Shf9rQGF3xFbeKkFFs4Ued9GX8TxdOBRMqu2QQ4u8wC9BrKfk6ApSpXIGDiddS0BX9WWjC_g9eEheXRnhHpEe1GARLHYCdsyKy_UCXz5hVfSfuwQ7XYicnHMhBVbHktQHoojVc96EWw/s320/lightly%20overweight%20man.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>Trust the plan? For how long?</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>I haven't started counting calories yet, but if this keeps up, I'll have to do that. </p><p>Argh.</p><p>On a positive note, with the exception of a few joints that are a trifle fussy, I've bounced back from my injuries and this year's weightlifting goals are higher than the old ones. I hadn't anticipated that.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-38540673959443706132024-02-09T15:01:00.000-08:002024-02-09T15:02:38.692-08:00Full Freakout Mode<p> ... is where the Democrats are right now after President Biden was deemed too stricken with dementia to prosecute for classified document mishandling. Their biggest problem seems to be how to do the old switcheroo to get Gavin Newsom into the slot without moving Kamala Harris.</p><p>Good luck with that one, kids! Just remember, race <i>uber alles!</i></p><p>Speaking of race, the real freakout mode should be happening at our universities, but since it's not happening there, it's up to us to run around screaming about it. Dig this bit of Nazi howler monkey action from UCSF.</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">These are now speakers at universities in blue bastions. <a href="https://t.co/wTIeQSfRo8">pic.twitter.com/wTIeQSfRo8</a></p>— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1756026572526538923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
<p>I won't go with the standard "What if the races were switched?" nonsense because it doesn't matter. This is full on racist insanity. It's hideousness can stand on its own, thank you very much.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7itnFN2veNA5jL9ocavG7UxeFzuAVLwYTRoE6Cc-isBGL90zpCRkNrlfUp28I3tg1g92tn1tFdCmp0AGNxX1J-9gu7-gnwfAfaANPtTOrpZc6ETiXeCNUBZZ_MkY5mK84F9S0VztlMU2vtHUqcTzuKwWg5PnlsvWdZDuA6t17-PCpSGwdZQ/s400/freakout.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="400" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7itnFN2veNA5jL9ocavG7UxeFzuAVLwYTRoE6Cc-isBGL90zpCRkNrlfUp28I3tg1g92tn1tFdCmp0AGNxX1J-9gu7-gnwfAfaANPtTOrpZc6ETiXeCNUBZZ_MkY5mK84F9S0VztlMU2vtHUqcTzuKwWg5PnlsvWdZDuA6t17-PCpSGwdZQ/s320/freakout.gif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>This is how I envision the kids in the lecture hall.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-28336521588370017012024-02-08T08:29:00.000-08:002024-02-08T08:55:31.713-08:00Real Right Wing Media Disinformation<p> ... is well-exemplified by <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/what-next-3.php" target="_blank">this post</a> from the normally excellent crew at PowerLine. It describes how Trump lost a unanimous decision by the D. C. District Court of Appeals which ruled that he did not have blanket immunity to steal catalytic converters or blackjack transients at the bus depot while he was President of the United States. That's all well and good. The closing paragraph was the kicker and it echoes what I hear from all my favorite hosts at the Daily Wire.</p><blockquote><p>If the Supreme Court denies review, the underlying criminal case brought by <b>Krazy-Eyez Killa</b> Jack Smith will return to Judge Chutkan. Assuming no scheduling conflicts with the other cases pending against Trump prevent it, Judge Chutkan apparently means to get this case tried following Trump’s nomination at the Republican convention to be held next July in Milwaukee. A trial at that time would give new meaning to the term “<b>election interference</b>.”</p></blockquote><p>Emphasis mine. We get that all the time from the conservative punditry these days. It's just grist for the poor, persecuted Donald Trump mill that is running 24/7. Yes, this is politically motivated. Yes, this is election interference. So what? Every candidate for the presidency from either party has faced that. </p><p>If Nixon could have put McGovern in jail, you don't think he would have done that? The left sincerely believed Reagan was going to get us into a thermonuclear holocaust. You don't think they were turning over every rock in the garden, looking for a way to stop him?</p><p>The difference is that Trump, the malignant narcissist that he is, has been the only candidate stupid enough to give his enemies such a wide array of weapons with which to attack him.</p><p>Take January 6, for instance. Trump is a junkie. His drug of choice is attention and praise. January 6 was nothing more than him fumbling around in his desk drawer for his venipuncture tourniquet and syringe. There was no point to that rally other than feed his desperate, narcissistic addiction. Failing on the world stage by losing the election drove him to drug-withdrawal madness. That many in the crowd went to jail for his sake meant nothing to him. The January 6 riot had no other purpose than to feed Trump's addiction.</p><p>Yes, he's being politically persecuted. Yes, the DAs and judges going after him are hacks, except for the classified documents case. The pundits are spot on about that, but they miss one, huge detail about all of these cases, a detail they should have been shouting from the rooftops so their fellow conservatives could have made a better choice in the primaries.</p><p>That detail is this: Trump is a self-destructive idiot. He can't help himself. He's sick. He is the architect of his own catastrophic failures and it will always be thus. Is that what we wanted?</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi757Icm0zYtCdAWUfovNrs0qyQNaQLHE9Thq-cmGDK1OY7ZnBIKkp0fagOT8_A7rPK1H5Nk8EiF6GG9UlUrL7DCRrghyphenhyphenWGpRDzDu6Lgjl0TXGxg9vx87MaA3jrdY8W3sK4CtbuipxJ96An2-VVohTHQg9b7kwMe13dZso27c5g2IwTAPpAQQ/s998/desantis%20miss%20me%20yet.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="998" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi757Icm0zYtCdAWUfovNrs0qyQNaQLHE9Thq-cmGDK1OY7ZnBIKkp0fagOT8_A7rPK1H5Nk8EiF6GG9UlUrL7DCRrghyphenhyphenWGpRDzDu6Lgjl0TXGxg9vx87MaA3jrdY8W3sK4CtbuipxJ96An2-VVohTHQg9b7kwMe13dZso27c5g2IwTAPpAQQ/w400-h266/desantis%20miss%20me%20yet.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>It didn't have to be like this.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-88056540427400552272024-02-07T15:02:00.000-08:002024-02-07T15:10:24.591-08:00Mob Control<p> ... when you can't speak their language is ... <i>difficult</i>.</p><p>Dig this.</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">NYC- Randall’s Island: This is what’s going on inside the tent city of illegal aliens being hidden away by the Biden Administration. <br />These soccer fields are meant to be year round for children to play sports and orgnanized leagues. <br /> <a href="https://t.co/l1ri9fzanQ">pic.twitter.com/l1ri9fzanQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/r0ta4XawY9">https://t.co/r0ta4XawY9</a></p>— Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ManhattanMingle/status/1754680175743189346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
<p>That's in NYC, but I'm sure it's playing out in cities all over the country. The illegals are crammed into dormitories like sardines. I had wondered how bad it must be for them to be sleeping wall to wall with people they don't know, with nothing to do and no prospects for their future. I hadn't contemplated what it must be like for cops to come into the middle of a melee in one of them.</p><p>Chalk up another reason to leave the NYPD or similar police department.</p><p>Meanwhile, the hotel owners have 100%+ occupancy and the NGOs, particularly Catholic Charities, are making money hand over fist operating these <strike>prisons</strike> hostels.</p><p>Speaking of prisons, Alabama's are supposed to be awful, but I can't imagine they're nearly as bad as this.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Super Happy Lucky #1 Bonus Video</h3><p>This is drone footage of this same facility for illegals. It looks like a bunch of aquariums. One doesn't have to image what it's like inside, all you need to do is look at the video above. NYC is scrounging to solve a few of their logistical problems, but they clearly have no plan to deal with unrest within these encampments.</p><p>They've got barbarians inside the city gates. 170,000 of them. Historically, that's worked out pretty poorly for the cities concerned.</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">(NYC) Randall’s Island: Drone footage captures a sprawling tent city for illegal aliens, displacing soccer fields meant for young athletes.<br>This vital resource took 3 decades to build and is now obliterated. <br>This shelter is at the expense of our youth.<br> <a href="https://t.co/A2iCbZgoS1">pic.twitter.com/A2iCbZgoS1</a></p>— Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ManhattanMingle/status/1752863761889632641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-49968922977150579462024-02-05T17:45:00.000-08:002024-02-05T17:47:29.462-08:00The Pain Of Modern Christian Theology<p>OK, progressive Christians, I have a task for you. Without judging, using objective rules or referring to religion, explain why what this girl is doing is wrong. Alternately, explain why what she is doing is either right or is morally neutral.</p><p>If you don't know about OnlyFans, it is a site where anyone can create a channel and be paid to perform sex acts on camera.</p><p>I you're not a progressive Christian and you're just some laity schlub sitting in the pews hearing your deacon or priest tell you that God doesn't care about religion or rules and He hates judgmentalism, ponder what is happening to the families of the, what, 10,000? subscribers of this girl's OnlyFans channel. It's all good, right? Well, at least you're not supposed to judge.</p>
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<p>Again, without referring to religion, objective rules and using no judgment, talk this girl out of what she's doing.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-85373598407059213552024-02-03T07:37:00.000-08:002024-02-03T09:15:36.076-08:00The State Of Modern Christian Theology<p> ... is summed up in this cartoon.</p>
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<p>The message is simple. Don't pay any attention to rules or judge behaviors in any way. Instead, love and love and love. Nothing you read in the Bible about sin matters compared to love.</p><p>Can you spot the glaring error?</p><p>The command to love <i>comes from the text of the Bible</i>. All I can think of is a dialog that goes something like this.</p>
<blockquote><b>Me:</b> Why should we love? <br /><b>Progressive Deacon, Priest or Bishop:</b> Because Jesus said so. <br /><b>Me:</b> What about the other things Jesus said? <br /><b>Prog:</b> Ignore them. <br /><b>Me:</b> Why? <br /><b>Prog:</b> (Pats me on the head gently) Just love. Let go of your rules and judgment. Just love. <br /><b>Me:</b> That's no answer at all! <br /><b>Prog:</b> (Laughs condescendingly) Just love and you will understand.</blockquote>
<p>Elsewhere on this blog, I've suggested that Catholicism is a wholistic description of the world as it is. It includes science, mathematics, philosophy, ethics, cosmology, purpose and theology. It is the result of thousands of years of accumulated genius where brilliant thinkers like G. K. Chesterton built upon the works of St. Thomas Aquinas who built on St. Augustine who built upon Jesus plus the Greeks, Romans and Jews.</p><p>All of that is thrown away by modern Christianity in favor of bland, flaccid niceness. </p><p>That niceness is built upon self-destruction. It derives its authority from the Bible whose authority it dismisses. It's like a mathematician who proves he doesn't exist and then, <i><b>poof!</b></i> he disappears.</p><p>We recently got a sermon from one of our deacons where he posited that God doesn't care about religion or rules, he only cares about love. He got that from Jesus' commandments to love. Jesus' assertion, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me," was disregarded for no reason whatsoever. So was Luke 22:36: </p><blockquote><p>He said to them, “But now one who has a money bag should take it, and likewise a sack, and one who does not have a sword should sell his cloak and buy one."</p></blockquote><p>Since swords aren't nice, we discard that part of the Bible.</p><p>Catholicism threads the needle between love, charity and forgiveness and the harsh realities of the world. It is muscular and confident because it is simply the best explanation of the Universe going. Modern, Christian theology has lost its nerve and cowers in the face of cultural pressures, collapsing into the fetal position, whimpering about love and niceness.</p>K T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.com1