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If Viruses Were Light

We’re up to at least 13 “variants” of SARS-CoV-2. Differing nucleotide sequences, differing spike proteins. But somehow they all cause “COVID-19.”

No one seems to want to explain why none of these are “novel coronaviruses” themselves, or call the disease associated with each COVID-20, COVID-21, and so forth. It’s like…

And no doubt all those colors would cause sunburn.

Funny thing. In the real world, coronaviruses — which SARS-CoV-2 is — account for roughly a quarter of all “common colds.” Maybe we should check definitions, and consider whether we’re just seeing the usual summer colds.

Nah. Colds wouldn’t panic people into accepting unapproved, experimental jabs.

CNN and the Fuzzies?

This was good for a chuckle.

CNN Says CNN+ Service Will Not Be Liberal, ‘We’re Not an Opinion Network’
MORSE: I don’t think anyone who’s looking for “deep lib” would seek out CNN. It’s just not what we do. But no, it’s not going to be ideological. We’re just not in that game. We’re not an opinion network, we’re a news network.”

Yeah. Right.

I long assumed — quite cynically — that CNN was consciously lying through their teeth. How else could you explain constant reporting of blatant… inaccuracies; even about verifiable physical facts. But somewhere along the the line I began to wonder.

If you’ve never read H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy novels, you really should.

Fuzzies are an alien race on another planet. They are primitive hunter/gather nomads. The entire species lacks even the concept of lying, which is a major premise for the entire trilogy.

But in the third novel, one Fuzzy — Wise One — discovers more or less accidentally that he can say a “not so thing.” The first time, he wants his little gang to go in a particular direction that the rest do not. He assures them that that place has lots of wonderful foods; that it’s an “everyone know thing,” that his predecessor told him. He puzzles over how he could say something like that, and decides maybe he did vaguely recall hearing it as a child.

Later, when the Fuzzies have found a pretty nice place, Wise One still wants to push on. With one exception, the others do not. Wise considers the “not so” lie he told before, and decides to run back to their camp screaming that a hesh-nazza — one of the Fuzzies’ most feared predators — is coming. The Fuzzies flee in terror in the direction Wise One wished.

But the thing is, in the panic Wise One forgets for a moment that there is no attacking creature. And he too is terrified by his own lie.

In the case of CNN, I’m no longer sure if they know they’re lying. They’re so caught up in their own narrative — with leftstream media regenerative feedback — that they now believe it’s truth, unlike the wiser Wise One who was able to remind himself, “Oh, yeah. There is no damnthing.”

Piper has been one of my favorite authors since I discovered his stories decades ago. But his work wouldn’t be bought by any publisher these days, excepting Baen, because he is not politically correct. Or leftist.

In Piper’s worlds, government is rarely the solution, and only when responsible people (usually men, given when Piper was writing) keep it in check. Solutions come from individuals who step up and take responsibility… and try to keep themselves in check (another discreet theme in the Fuzzy novels). Individuals are willing to take chances, even risk their lives, to do the right thing.

Socialism is a bad thing thing, and makes things worse, requiring responsible individuals to tke a hand (Oomphel In The Sky). Communism is the same as the officially slave-based society from which it evolved (A Slave Is A Slave).

In the case of the Fuzzies, Piper rejects the Left’s preferred “noble savage” narrative. Meeting humans was an — almost — unalloyed good thing for them. Humanity, in fact, saves the the species from extinction in a few generations, due to a nearly nonexistent birthrate, and more or less accidentally at that. We know it worked because Fuzzies are still around thousands of years later (Ministry of Disturbance).

Piper would get no Hugo awards these days.

Light Reading For The Day

THE HANGING JUDGE, at the corner of Mason and Rodney, did not refer to Roy Bean ( a Supreme Court justice in this particular branch of surreality) or to those like Roy with with an inclination to judicial severity. No, the sign outside, over the entryway, consisted of a white-wigged dummy in long black robes swinging from a gibbet by a length of looped hemp. At the bottom was a legend: “Sic semper tyrannis!”

— The American Zone, L. Neil Smith, 2001

That was even quicker than I expected.

The lawsuit challenging the Georgia Senate run-offs, filed yesterday, was dismissed… yesterday.

Judge tosses lawsuit attempting to overturn Georgia Senate runoff elections
A lawsuit in Georgia seeking to overturn the results of the state’s twin U.S. Senate runoff elections in January was dismissed by a judge during a hearing on Monday.

I expected it to be tossed, but I thought the court would make more of a show of pretend “fairness.”

Nope. Georgia effectively no longer has a state constitution.

Maricopa County: We discovered that we don’t have routers.

Seriously; that’s now their claim: no routers on the election system, no connection to the Internet, no connection to the county network. Yep, they’re changing their story again. In fact, they provided this handy diagram.

Yet, somehow, up to now they claimed they did have routers, and that they’re connected to the county network.

“We had previously believed that the risk would be eliminated by redacting the law enforcement data on the routers and not producing it. But we were informed that redaction did not eliminate the risk,” Deputy County Attorney Joseph LaRue wrote in a letter to Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett.

And Maricopa County Sheriff Penzone confirmed that the — now suddenly nonexistent — elections routers (you did notice their use of the plural, right?) were at the very least connected to his system.

“The integrity of classified data, private information and law enforcement specific material would immediately be vulnerable and exposed, regardless of the steps promised by a private vendor who states otherwise.”

I’m thinking that, if there were no routers, Maricopa should have mentioned that to the auditors… instead of offering the router logs in lieu of the physical — now suddenly nonexistent — routers. If they had no routers, where in the hell were those logs going to come from?

I fear that it may not be much longer before Arizonans start decorating lampposts.

Added: It’s probably also worth noting that access to the Netgear switch would be useful. Switches direct packets across a network in a fashion similar to routing, but use device MAC addresses instead of IP addresses. If the auditos=rs could see the switch, they should be able to see what devices connected to the election network, and communicated with what other devices. They might even see that Maricopa is…. mistaken about what was connected.

Added 2: It appears that Netgear only sells 48 port switches (which Maricopa’s diagram shows) with some level of management. So they can’t eh, shouldn’t claim that switch won’t have logs.

911 Swamped

Too many people calling 911 unnecessarily? Via 357 Magnum:

The Vexing Obstacle to Police Reform: A Cop’s Miserable Life
The devolution of cops in big cities—and that’s where most of the crime happens—begins with patrol officers doing little but responding to 911 calls. That may sound to those who’ve never worn a police uniform like no big deal, just part of the job. Not so. The 911 system seemed like a good idea when it was created in the late 1960s for emergency calls. But Americans got addicted to instantly available cops. By 1996 there were 268,000 911 calls daily and now there are 600,000, many of which are not related to crimes in progress or an imminent emergency but to non-threatening disorderly conduct problems or taking reports on car accidents or burglaries that occurred hours or days before.

It isn’t always the caller’s fault.

A couple of years ago, I had a suspicious person who wanted into my house: She claimed to be a subcontractor for an inspection company working on behalf of the mortgage servicing company. When asked for ID, she pulled out a smartphone and showed me a picture of a company logo. Oh, and she named the wrong mortgage servicing company. I ran her off.

Since this looked like a person trying to case homes for possible burglary, I decided to give the police a heads up in case she was trying it on other people. This was no emergency, and my incident was over, I called the PD’s non-emergency line.

When I started to tell them I wanted to pass on some info, the person taking the call said, “Let me put you through to 911.”

-sigh-

So when the 911 operator picked up, I told her, “Sorry, this isn’t an emergency, but the non-emergency line put me through to you anyway.”

Georgia Senate Run-Off Election News

A lawsuit challenging the run-off elections of Dimocrat “Senators” Ossoff and Warnock will be filed today.

The lawsuit alleges the results of this election do not accurately reflect the intent of eligible voters in Georgia and therefore should be overturned. The lawsuit points to significant misconduct, legal irregularities committed by election officials, procedural violations, and security breaches surrounding electronic voting equipment, among other things.

I should contact them and see if I can join their action. I’ve long maintained that the run-offs were conducted unlawfully. To wit: Secretary of Scum Raffensperger unlawfully allowed people to register to vote in the run-offs after the general election. This violates Georgia Code § 21-2-540 and the state Constitution, Article II, Section II, Paragraph II. The Constitution explicitly states:

Paragraph II. Run-off election. A run-off election shall be a continuation of the general election and only persons who were entitled to vote in the general election shall be entitled to vote therein; and only those votes cast for the persons designated for the runoff shall be counted in the tabulation and canvass of the votes cast.

And § 21-2-540 requires voters to be registered before the election. No one who was not registered for the general election in November should have been allowed to vote in the January run-offs. Raffensperger specifically allowed it, making up his own “deadline” for new registrations.

Confirmed: Maricopa County “Sharpiegate” was real and DELIBERATE.

Maricopa County elections worker Kelly Dixon instructed clerks to hand out proper ballpoint pens to voters during in-person early voting (which leans Dimocrat), and then to hand out sharpie markers to voters on election day (leans Republican). This, despite the fact that ballot instructions clearly state not to use sharpies because they will bleed through and cause ballot scan errors.

Next, we’ve heard you and we know you’re hearing issues and concerns about the Sharpie Markers. Starting tomorrow, 10/23 and through 11/2m we are asking that Clerks hand voters BALLPOINT PENSr ather than markers. We NEED to use Markers on Election Day, but for now and through 11/2, hand voters a Ballpoint Pen. You have plenty of pens in your supplies right now.

Please message this to your inspectors and ensure they can cascade this change down to everyone on the Board.

If your state uses computer ballot marking devices, you may not see the issue. In Maricopa, voters manually mark pre-printed ballots, and those ballots are printed with races on both sides of the paper. Bleed-through means marks on one side can cause marks on the other side which can cause errors. And DID.

It only gets worse when those pre-printed ballots are mysteriously printed on the wrong paper which allows bleed-through, instead of the SecureVote bleed-resistant paper Maricopa claimed they used.

Up to now, Maricopa could have claimed mere criminal misfeasance caused by wrong training and incredible incompetence. But this shows intentional election misconduct at the felony level: and conspiracy: “Please message this to your inspectors and ensure they can cascade this change down to everyone on the Board.”

Maricopa County apparently has a very strange way of counting ballots.

I guess this is my day for election crap. The Maricopa Edition is disturbingly amusing.

Why might the Cyber Ninjas’ ballot count differ from @MaricopaVote numbers?
For the same reason people might get different answers to this problem: (6 x 5) ÷ 3 + 11
If you don’t know the order of operations, you don’t know the answer.

Now, see? I had it all wrong. I thought you counted ballots by.., you know, counting, 1, 2, 3, 4 […] 100. That’s a “batch.” Then you count the next batch. When you’ve got all the batches, you add those up. 100 + 99 + 101 = 300.

Done. Boy, was I wrong. The Maricopa way is to add up some ballots, mulitply that by something, divided the result by an arbitrary number, then add in the votes you need for a desired result.

Come to think of it, that’s pretty much the Deklab and Fulton, GA technique.

Maricopa basically just admitted to fraudulently counting ballots.

Now if only I get my bank to do that with my balance, I’d be a frickin’ millionaire.