Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Question 9


Question 9

Can people identify as vaccinated?

People always try to create insightful questions that subdivide people and their thinking. My question to separate modern people into two social/political groups: Do you think that James Longstreet could be U.S. Grant's best man at his wedding?

The Pirates have fired their hitting coach. Should they bring Polanco back now that there will be a new coach?

Is it true that people of color do not fly as often as white people? If true, should white people be restricted from flying? And should people of color be forced to fly?

Is this a man's world? A white world? When all of Japan was living under the Shogunate, what kind of world was that?

The Secretary of the Navy said the Primary Mission of the Navy, in order, was 1. China 2. Culture 3. Climate 4. Covid. Is that, on its surface, one of the dumbest things you have ever heard?

The adjectives to describe the Pirates are legion but there is one that is the main branch feeding all others: insincerity. From their sappy, virtue-signaling charity to their fraud of development to their current emphasis on minor leaguers to their pretense of fielding a competitive team, they drip mendacity. They are already the symbol of American politics; are they the future of business too?

Is anyone watching the Paralympics? Are impaired performances entertaining?

Are ESG self-imposed social credits?

The same day at least 12 U.S. service members, including 10 U.S. Marines, were killed in a terror attack in Afghanistan, Vice media ran a story titled, “Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis?”

Pediatricians and other health care workers are suing the Biden administration over a mandate tied to health care which would, according to the suit, require medical professionals to provide gender-related services and surgeries despite objections, medical or otherwise.
Objections, even to treating children, would be considered “discrimination,” pursuant to Biden’s reinterpretation of sex to include sexual orientation and “gender identity.”
So, is medical judgment a construct?

Last year, 2020, saw about the same number of deaths per 100,000 people as 2008 in Great Britain. So, how come the rate isn't higher because of Covid?

The truth about Nazism and the Holocaust is that they came from Western civilization, from its best as from its worst, from academic positivism itself as much as from irrationalism.--McCloskey.
The dictionary definition of positivism is:
1. a philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism.
2. the theory that laws are to be understood as social rules, valid because they are enacted by authority or derive logically from existing decisions, and that ideal or moral considerations (e.g., that a rule is unjust) should not limit the scope or operation of the law.
Well, that's all neat and tidy, isn't it?

Does the remark about positivism above make you feel any better about Critical Race Theory?

Klein writes, "sweden has one of the most aggressive covid counting methodologies in the world. they tested a lot and then called any death for any reason within 30 days of a positive covid test a covid death.
get sick, recover, get hit by a bus? covid death"
Cuts a lot of messy judgment out, doesn't it?

A police officer is 375 times as likely to be killed by a black suspect as an unarmed black is to be killed by a police officer. So is one group disproportionately vulnerable? And if the confrontational risk is arbitrary, is it arbitrary for both subsets or just one?

Counties with larger Trump margins have lower vaccination rates. However, not all counties are the same. For example, Loving County (TX) voted 90% for Trump. It also has 64 people as of the 2020 census. Meanwhile, Los Angeles County (the most populous in America) voted 75% for Biden.
Is this stuff meaningful?

North Korean nuclear reactor is up and running. Why wouldn't the Chinese be really worried about these guys?

A former mistress of JFK has an article in Vanity Fair about the "specialness" confirmed with affairs with the powerful. Can 'specialness' be caught? Is it venereal?

Is Larry Elder being hailed by the Left as a "ceiling breaker" and a "pioneer?"

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