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My daugter was really into the "Left Behind" series when they first came out 20 years ago.

They were huge, and so naturally were made into a movies. Sadly the movies kinda sucked. The first attempt was three movies covering the entire book series. Then 15 years later they rebooted and tried again. This second time they got Nick Cage to play the lead. He was supppsed to do the whole trilogy, but dropped out after one. They still made the second one with a different lead and a few other cast members.

Now all five are intermittently available on various cable services. I've watched a bunch of them, sometimes I fall asleep watching them.

Watching the Biden administration is like watching random Left Behind movies on late night cable. You are never sure who will be playing Rayford Steele (the protagonist). Is that Nick Cage? Some other Guy? Is that Joe Biden? Some other guy?

Regardless of which version or episde: we know that the powerful UN supporting guy is the Antichrist, the world is going to hell, litterally, we know "don't take the chip", and that most of the characters are hypnotized by evil.

It getting harder are harder to tell these Left Behind reruns from Steve Banon's War Room.

I was a few years too old to dig Kiss. We had the Monkey's as our kiddie band, the guys 5 or 6 years younger had Kiss.

First album release: 1974. I was 16 and really into Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, King Crimson. the Stones and also John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Weather Report and even Bob Marley.

So, I never got to know their music beyond the couple of songs they played on the radio. (And I didn't listen to whatever format of radio played Kiss songs, either.)

"I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day" -- what ever that sone is called seems like it was BY FAR their biggest hit. Is it not on this list? The other one I remember hearing a bit was "Detroit Rock City" which, being in Detroit got a lot more airplay than it probably did anywhere else.

In retrospect they were kind of cool, sort of the apex of glam-rock, and a very solid groove-driven band. I'm sure they were fantastic in concert.

You are of course right that 1/3 does not =0.0357142857, aa I wrote. That was a typo.

What I intended to write was:

1/28 =0.0357142857,

28 being the number of judges.

Thank you for pointing out the error in my writeup.

You wrote:
Stop with the BCE stuff already. It’s “BC”.

A lot of local standards get modified when they become more widely used. Do you also object to the use of UCT in place of GMT?

The wide use of the BCE/CE abbreviations stated with Jewish intellectuals about 100 years ago. Particularly in the sciences. It was already widely used when I was in college in the 1970s.

Do you really expect the Chinese (all one billion of them) to use an abreviation that means "in the year of our Lord" in latin a dead language?

It seems like a small accomodation. We (the West) won the world-wide. Battle of Calendars. Christians "won" in the sense the start date is set as Christ's birth year,at least calculated by the Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus in 525 A.D.

It turns out he probably got the date wrong.

Dionysius never recorded how he decided on the date of Jesus Christ’s birth. Some scholars think he used astrological signs, while others believe he based his assertion on the Bible. The gospels don’t necessarily agree on that date, though, with the Gospel of Matthew noting that Jesus was born when Herod the Great, who died in 4 BCE, was in power, while the Gospel of Luke notes the birth was when Quirinius was governor of Syria around 6 CE. What we do know, however, is that Dionysius was successful in promoting his timeline, and it became the standard used to this day.

Given all this perhaps you will be less angry about people using the BCE/CE terms.

(P.S. Are you a Roman Catholic? Seeing as a latin speaking Christian monk invented the A.D. suffix and another English monk invented the B.C. suffix in 731, that would make sense.)

Conversely, it seems like an odd hill for any Protestant or Orthodox Christian to fight for. The Orthodox, rejecting the authorority of the Bishop of Rome (the self-styled "Pope") never adopted the Gregorian calendar, and stick with the original one created by Julius Ceaser, which is why their Easter and Christmas are 12 days later. And the protesting reformers like Luther rejected much of the tradition of the Catholics, including the inclusion and ordering of the books of the Bible.

Given all that is BC to BCE really that big a deal?

1/3 =0.0357142857 Or roughly a 3.6% chance on the first case.

Then multiple by itself twice (or cube it): .036x.036x.036=
0.000046656
Which is a 0.005% chance
Or: 5 in 100,000
a 1 in 20,000 chance.

It's just slightly easier than picking up a pair of dice and rolling 2 three times in a row.

If you did that in Vegas they would probably ask you to leave the casino.<> If you put a $100 chip on "2" at the craps table and HIT you get $3000. If you let it ride and HIT again you'd now have $90,000 in chips on the table. If you let it ride one more time and HIT again the casino would owe you $2.7 million dollars.

THAT'S what we are asked to believe happened here.

Great article. Thanks for posting.

Great article. Thanks for posting.

The last bear in the Santa Cruz mountains anyone can remember was a medium sized cub, who was captured by some lumber jack after the turn of the century (19th-20th century that is).

It was put into the area under Joe's Bar, which was enclosed with lattice and used to store stuff, and kept there for a few days for the amusement of the locals. I think it was given to a zoo after a week of captivity.

Sadly, the main intersection is town is Bear Creek Rd. (one of the twistiest roads in the Santa Cruz mountains, which is saying something) and Hwy. 9 - but there are no bears in the Santa Cruz mountains anymore.

How will it replace the funds it gets from Ubcle Sugar?It will save money on not having to deal with 1,000,000 illegals a year. Many "federally mandated" program can be ended or rationalized.

Ideally there would be a negotiated settlement on all this, like Brexit. Which won't be painless. Texas will have to assume some portion of the US Debt. (I would say perhaps exclude the debt accrused under Biden seeing as our objections to the stolen election were not attended to by the Feds, we shouldn't take the debt of the fake Biden Occupation government.

Outside of the five sided puzzle palace the military is far from being deep state or woke.

He’ll spend the rest of his life in Rikers Island.

Riker's island is the City of New York jail, you don't go there for multi-year State prison sentences.

Anything happen after Waco?

Oklahoma City.

Breitbart:

Trump to Be Sentenced July 11, Four Days Before Republican Convention Starts July 15

Lead the way, dware.

The Civil War happened because the Army divided in two and the chain of command broke down.

13 States voted to leave the Union. Secession happened before the Civil War began, and it had nothing to do with the Army breaking down.

Even the Telegraph is having trouble keeping to the propaganda lies:

Dead French foreign legion soldier in the war zone.

The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement

Paperback – April 1, 2015
by Paul E. Gottfried (Editor), Richard B. Spencer (Editor)

A central crucible in the evolution of the American Right has been "the purge"-that is, the expulsion, often in an explicit fashion, of views or individuals deemed outside the bounds of "respectability." Victims include the John Birch Society, Peter Brimelow, John Derbyshire, Sam Francis, Revilo P. Oliver, Murray Rothbard, foreign-policy makers deemed "isolationists," immigration reformers, and many others.

This essay collection is an attempt to better understand conservative ideology (often euphemized as "timeless principles") and how it functioned within its historic context and responded to power, shifting conceptions of authority, and societal changes. Through the purges, we can glimpse what conservatism is not, those aspects of itself it has attempted to deny, mask, leave behind, and forget, and the ways in which memories can be reconstructed around new orthodoxies. Contributors include Peter Brimelow, Lee Congdon, John Derbyshire, Samuel T. Francis, Paul Gottfried, James Kalb, Keith Preston, William Regnery, and Richard Spencer.

Buckley, as was mentioned above, was a gatekeeper. He (and pretty much he alone) decided what was "legitimate" conservatism, and what was beyond the pale. Over time he moved Left, and so a lot of his early collaborators were eventually pushed out. To be to the right of Buckley was to be an extremist, by his definition. The Left was happy to go along with this. Why not accept a general who divides his own forces before the battle?

As you can see this book was published 9 years ago. It was the spring of the Alt-Right, before Richard Spencer made his transition to white nationalist and class clown, that brought the whole Alt-Right crashing down on top of him.

It's ironic that someone who could so clearly see how badly that Buckley had handled his "15 minutes of fame" and lost the plot of what he was trying to accomplish -- in turn handled his fifteen minutes of fame even worse.

Richard Spencer to the memory of William F. Buckley: "Here, hold my beer"

Still, before all that he started Arktos Publishing, and did a couple issues of this magazine: The Radix Journal, which were pretty good. The publishing house lives on (sans Spencer) but the journal is history. They both published a lot of French "New Right" and other European right-wing stuff. Arktos still does.

Currently they seem to have picked up all of Alexander Dugin's books, which I believe the Biden administration specifically asked Amazon to deplatform (and they did, of course).

A representative sample of recent books published by Arktos

Free Republic was pretty much itself an outpost of Buckleyism in the early years. Buckley was very successful in gatekeeping. And, just like you couldn't write about race and IQ, or black dysfunction in the pages of The National Review after a little while, such topics were off-limits on FR in the past. (And, you still can bump into remnants of these prohibitions if you try top post articles from some sources).

My sense is that Free Republic has moved in a Nationalist and rightward direction over the last 20 years, while the National Review has continued to slide to the Left, so that today a lot of Freepers hold views more aligned with Paul Gotfried, Pat Buchanan, and others from the paleo-conservative right that Buckley was so busy purging.

At this point they should sequester the jury.

The judge WANTS the jury to be pressured by their families and friends to convict Trump regardless of the evidence, thus he will not sequester them.