And of course, slavery as well: The peasants are not subhuman, just a lesser class of humans whose natural function is to work so that we may do important things that they barely understand. See Jefferson's description of this: "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god."
Saturday, February 28, 2026
In Case You Missed It, the Haggling With the Rug Merchants is Over
We have been at war with Iran since 1979. During that time, they have murdered Americans, executed rspe victims and homosexuals while America's leftists have made excuses or rewarded them with pallets of cash.
Whatever his failures on breaking the Deep State, he is doing what no President has had the courage to do: attack a self-admiited enemy of the United States.
Pray for flight crews of America and Israel and the suffering Iranians who need to destroy what little will remain of the mullahocracy when this is over.
And note carefully: no ground troops. If the Iranian people cannot defeat their own oppressors, it is not our job.
Friday, February 27, 2026
Public Astronomy
I assisted Boise Astronomical Society with a star party at Future Public School in Garden City. The name sounds like someone had a planning map for a subdivision and wrote Future Public School in a box and someone assumed that was the name not a projection.
This was in late afternoon so we were limited to the Sun and the Moon. The Sun has a pretty decent sunspot right now that is very big, many Earth diameters and a few freckles right at the limb.
Lots of polite kids very excited to look. There is a future for America. A couple adults curious to know about solar cycles and Earth climate.
I took my Televue-85 sitting on an EQ1 mount. This is really a bit more scope than this meant was meant to carry. It clearly was unhappy. I am inclined to buy a Vixen AP-SM mount. They are about 3x as expensive as the Chinese mounts of comparable capacity and features. The CFC mount project started because i thought the Vixens were no longer available in the U.S.
The Vixen mount is fairly light for its capacity, about 14 pounds plus counterweights. Something i can pick up and carry seperate from the scope. (A Televue-85 is pricy enough that you do not want to trip while carrying it.)
I expect a substantial inheritance soon and I may buy it when that comes into my account. The EQ1 mount is appropriate for the 3" f/4.5 reflector i built some years ago.
My Outgoing Email is Again Working
If you emailed a question and never heard back that is probably why. It was a silent failure to send
Thursday, February 26, 2026
What a Great Healthcare System!
2/26/26 Globe and Mail (Canadian big newspaper):
1 in 4 Canadians in long-term care were given anti-psychotic drugs without diagnosis, report finds
Self-Darwinizing
Darwin loves it when feloniously stupid thugs do feloniously stupid things…like trying to rob people who are walking out of a gun range. With guns on them. That’s right up there with juggling chainsaws or hand grenades with the pins pulled, but that’s what happened in Texas.
A trio of rocket surgeons apparently wanted to audition as the Three Stooges of Crime, watching for a guy to leave a gun store and live-fire range in Houston. They actually laid in wait outside a gun range looking for someone to rob. In Texas. Where “howdy” might as well as mean, “I’m packing, you packing too?”
What could possibly go wrong?
Dreamers
ICE arrested 261 DACA recipients over 10 months last year, document shows
Deeper in, for those who read beyond the headline:
The statistics indicate the vast majority of DACA recipients taken into federal immigration custody during that period had criminal records.
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