Author: Jim

Faith

Pete Hegseth gets it, sort of.

A state exists because its army exists. States exist because armies exist. A state needs a faith, and an army needs a faith. There is always a state faith. And starting with Obama, the faith of woke is currently being imposed on the army — a faith incompatible with the army’s core function, which efficiently killing people and breaking things. It is also incompatible with war production, or production of …

war

How to make peace with Russia

Firstly, America cannot have peace with anyone until it has a sovereign who can say “war with the outgroup” and every member of the ingroup is at war, or imprisoned as a traitor, and can say “peace with the outgroup”, and everyone in the state apparatus is at peace with the outgroup, or gets sent in chains to the outgroup. All our previous living arrangements with India, China, and Russia …

Faith

The death of woke games and movies

Ubisoft has been compared to an all you can eat oatmeal buffet. They have not been able to create new game play for a very long time. They have been creating new background and story, new art content. Which new content has gradually become not plot, story, and character development, but has, like Hollywood movies, become insulting and hostile attacks on their audience, which amount to “You are scum, shut …

Uncategorized

May all my readers have a blessed Christmas

With a new president and new team in charge, next Christmas, we may see the shopping centers permitting the sale of Christian themed Christmas ornaments and wrapping paper, which are currently unavailable in the shops, but are available from Temu under the search “Christmas vintage” Our enemies are motivated by envy, so living well is the best revenge. So, in the era of the Chinese hegemony, wishing you a “Vintage” …

science

Limited Hangout on the awesome might of the Covid Demon

I seldom report on the latest news of the day, because there are loads of people covering it with intense attention, most of them far better informed on details of the latest events than I am, which noise tends to drown out the perspective that enables one to see what is happening over the longer time scale. Today’s events are far better understood from a perspective that sees them as …

Faith

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The leftmost of the left currently is, or very recently was, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. (It is always hard to say what the current leftmost is, because the left is always re-inventing itself. Leftism has no essence, it is a bunch of tactics that serviceable in the goals of envy and covetousness, and the ever changing systems of ideas are merely flim flam and the latest tactics. What do Catastrophic …

liberty

The Russian invasion of the Ukraine is a just war

This post stolen wholesale from this excellent comment According the Christian doctrine of Bellum Iustum, just war, just war requires Jus Ad Bellum, the right to go to war. Jus In Bello, Justice in War. jus post bellum, Just ending of the war. Jus Ad Bellum requires: Auctoritas competens, right authority. You need a sovereign who can make peace or war, and if he says “war” everyone in his ingroup …

war

Delusion and end of the Ukraine war

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Hello? The west has been succumbing in every battle. A deal should have been made in July 2023 when it …

economics

Government Healthcare and the deficit

Healthcare in the US is extraordinarily, ludicrously, bad. It is also absurdly, extraordinarily, ludicrously expensive, both for any individual who is not part of an official victim group, and for the government. The government deficit is about two trillion dollars, and is unsustainable. Economic collapse and hyperinflation looms. The cost of healthcare to the government is about equal to the deficit. Comparing US (corrupt civil service and judiciary) health care …

politics

How to deport eighteen million illegals

I saw Vance accepting the defeatist frame that it is hard to deport eighteen million illegals.  No it is not hard.  Tony Abbot in Australia faced a smaller but similar problem, and here is how he handled it: Everyone has interactions where you have to present your ID:  Cops, welfare, hospitals, and so on and so forth.  And they then run your ID through their computers.  Which in Australia, if …