Another AWFUL Being Awful

The Daily Mail reports that Mary Conmee, 63, "a retired New York State Police Sgt. who resides in Orrington, [Maine] confessed she was the woman who tried to impede the Brewer Police Department's investigation into a person's 'intent to kill school staff and others' at local schools on Wednesday, authorities said." Why would she do this? Because she's a liberal and so her need to feel good about herself outweighs anybody else's right to life, liberty or property. This was all about her social preening: she thought it might be an immigration enforcement action. 

Virginia Lawmaker Introduces Bill Blocking Scrutiny Of Non-Profits After Minnessota Fraud Exposed

I saw this over at Anonymous Conservative this morning: a Fox News article reporting that "After Somali fraud scandal, VA Democrat pushes bill killing oversight of nonprofits." The politician at issue is the Jessica Anderson, a delegate to the general assembly. You might not think this will get very far, but I've seen comments that Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is being groomed to be one of the next Democratic presidential candidates. She might push something like this along to solidify support behind her in the party. 

Leftist Upping The Stakes In Minnessota

The leftist rag, the Peoples Dispatch, states that "[m]omentum toward a statewide general strike is rapidly building in Minnesota, as unions, businesses, students, and community organizations prepare to shut down work, schools, and commerce on January 23, in response to the killing of Renee Macklin Good and the expanding presence of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Twin Cities." The article adds:

The call to shut down the Twin Cities and the entire state of Minnesota has been joined by over 100 labor unions, community organizations, cultural groups, and tenant and neighborhood associations. Hundreds of small businesses so far have also declared they will totally shut down, according to a sign-on letter shared with Peoples Dispatch.  

The question is whether anyone (but news organizations) will notice? Meanwhile, per ABC News, the "Army orders military police to get ready for a possible Minneapolis deployment, AP source says." This is only a few dozen MPs according to the article. But it also notes that "[a]bout 1,500 active-duty soldiers from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division based in Alaska also have received similar standby orders."

A Look Inside The Mind Of An Elite

 An article from the New York Post entitled "James Cameron moved his family to New Zealand because it’s ‘sane’ compared to ‘extremely polarized’ US." A few things that struck me when I read it:

• The lack of loyalty to any country. He was born in Canada, moved to the U.S. in 1971, purchased a farm (i.e., a bolt hole) in New Zealand in 2012, moved there in 2022 because he preferred how they forced everyone to get the Covid vaxx versus the United States, and now has citizenship in New Zealand. 
• Why are so many elites picking New Zealand as their bolt holes? 
• His collectivist tendencies. The article relates:

    Although he was still working on 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” at the time, he and Amis decided to “make the move as a family” that August because of how New Zealand responded to the pandemic versus the US.

    “New Zealand had eliminated the virus completely,” the “Terminator” director, who was born in Canada but moved to California in 1971, told Besinger. “They actually eliminated the virus twice. The third time when it showed up in a mutated form, it broke through. But fortunately, they already had a 98% vaccination rate.” 

    “This is why I love New Zealand,” he continued. “People there are, for the most part, sane as opposed to the United States, where you had a 62% vaccination rate, and that’s going down – going the wrong direction.”

    Cameron went on to praise New Zealand’s appreciation for science and suggested that the US would fall apart if another pandemic occurred.

    “Where would you rather live?” the Oscar-winning director asked. “A place that actually believes in science and is sane, and where people can work together cohesively to a common goal?”   

So he considers a population insane if they don't do what the elites tell them? Or perhaps he likes the social cohesion that comes from a country that is 68% white versus living in southern California?

New Theory About How Pyramids Were Constructed

"Egypt's Great Pyramid construction rewritten as new evidence exposes how it was actually built" reports the Daily Mail.  

    The construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramid has long baffled archaeologists, with no surviving ancient texts explaining how its massive stone blocks were lifted and assembled so quickly. 

    Traditional theories rely on ramps and a slow, layer-by-layer build, but they struggle to explain how stones weighing up to 60 tons were raised hundreds of feet in just two decades. 

    Now, a new study has proposed that the pyramid was built using an internal system of counterweights and pulley-like mechanisms hidden inside its structure.

    In research published in Nature, Dr Simon Andreas Scheuring of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York calculated that builders could lift and place massive blocks at an astonishing pace, sometimes as quickly as one block per minute. 

    He argued that this would only have been possible with sliding counterweights, rather than brute-force hauling, generating the power needed to raise stones to the upper levels of the Pyramid of Khufu.

    The study also pointed to architectural features inside the pyramid that support this model, identifying the Grand Gallery and Ascending Passage as sloped ramps where counterweights may have been dropped to create a lifting force. 

    The Antechamber, long thought to be a security feature, is reinterpreted as a pulley-like mechanism that could help lift even the heaviest blocks. 

    If true, the study suggested the Great Pyramid was constructed from the inside out, starting at an internal core and using hidden pulley systems to raise stones as the structure grew. 

The Science Is Unsettled

 From Science News: "A massive cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption about the universe." A ring of dense matter spanning more than 3.3 billion light-years is posing a problem for the cosmological principle, which holds that the universe looks the same in all directions on large scales.

    That principle is “the second most fundamental assumption in the field,” after Einstein’s theory of general relativity, says mathematical physicist Eoin ÓColgáin of Atlantic Technological University in Ireland, who studies challenges to the cosmological principle but was not involved in the new work. Every theoretical model of the universe assumes that matter is evenly distributed when you look at large enough volumes of space. Without that assumption, ÓColgáin says, “all hell would break loose.”

    The giant ring joins a growing list of huge structures that shouldn’t exist if that assumption holds. It is apparently an extension of a previously reported “giant arc,” and encircles a smaller — but still huge — “big ring” of material.

    “They appear to present more of a challenge to the cosmological principle together now,” says Lopez, of the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, England. “Can we explain something like a ring and an arc together?”

More of Mexico's Assymetrical Attacks On The U.S.

 From Breitbart: "MEXICO’S ELECTION PLOT UNMASKED: How Mexico’s 50+ Consulates Are Running Shadow Campaign to Sway U.S. Elections." Among various activities, they are sending millions of textbooks to American schools that teach history the way Mexico wants it taught, offer similar courses to Mexican adults in the U.S., and organized mass protests in support of illegal immigration into the U.S. I don't see why Mexico should be allowed to have so many consulates. China has one embassy and four consulates in the U.S. Russia has only three consulates in addition to their embassy. Germany has eight consulates. India has only seven. 

Grassi: At Gunpoint Is Wrong

Earlier this month, Massad Ayoob had posted explaining why "On Target, On Trigger" is wrong. By "On Target, On Trigger" he meant having the finger on the trigger while holding someone at gunpoint. But Rich Grassi, in his article "Sacred Cow or Wrong Point?" argues that even pointing the firearm at someone, until you are actually taking your shot, is wrong. He writes:

     Actually, the point is “in the self-defense context, gunpoint needs to go.” If there’s muzzle on meat, we’re in the process of shooting (unless something stops that train). Otherwise, the muzzle is averted in the safest available direction, usually a muzzle-averted (thanks, Dave Spaulding) low ready.

    Low ready has acres of advantages – not the least of which is complete vision of the (incipient) crime scene pre-engagement. If shooting’s not needed, so much the better.

 He's not the only one that teaches this. In the civilian context, the quotes from Marty Hayes:

    “My advice is to avoid drawing the gun unless you absolutely need to do so, avoid pointing the gun at anyone unless you absolutely need to do so, and then call the police to report the criminal activity which caused you to draw the gun.  If you cannot articulate criminal activity on the part of the aggressive parties, don’t draw the gun.

    “An alternative to drawing the gun at all is simply to take a bladed stance, with gun side away from the potential attacker or attackers, and place your hand on the gun underneath your concealment garment, with a warning to back off.  Your resolve to use deadly force if necessary is communicated, but there is no exposure of the gun.”   

Read the whole thing.  

China's Population Continues To Fall

"China’s population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution," reports the Associated Press. Population figures earlier this week show that the population declined by 3 million people last year, and "the birth rate in 2025 — 5.63 per 1,000 people — is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao Zedong’s Communists overthrew the Nationalists and began running China. Figures before that, under the previous Nationalist government, were not available." In other words, birth rates are the lowest ever recorded. The article adds:

Like many other countries in Asia, China has faced a declining fertility rate, or the average number of babies a woman is expected to have in her lifetime. While the government does not regularly publish a fertility rate, last saying it was 1.3 in 2020, experts have estimated it is now around 1. Both figures are far below the 2.1 rate that would maintain the size of China’s population.  

The actual population figures may actually be much worse than officially reported, however, as the video below explains:

 VIDEO: "China’s Real Population: A Question No One Is Allowed to Answer"
Lei's Real Talk (14 min.)

NY Post: Rogue Elephant Kills Nearly Two Dozen People In India

From the New York Post: "Rogue elephant kills nearly two dozen people in 10-day rampage through eastern India." An additional 15 people have been injured. Per the article:

    The animal is believed to be in a state of musth — a natural but dangerous hormonal condition in male elephants marked by a surge in testosterone that can last weeks or even months.

    During musth, bulls become extremely aggressive, restless and unpredictable, often roaming long distances and attacking without warning.

Authorities have been unsuccessful in tranquilizing the animal, and "[l]ocal authorities say the elephant has yet to be captured as it continues to evade teams by moving swiftly through dense forest and slipping across remote villages under cover of darkness."