Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Cash Only As Alternative To Obamacare
A look at how cash-only medicine may be the future of medicine.
Monday, March 27, 2017
New Study Refutes Homosexual Mythology
A new study disproves that homosexuality is in any way natural. In short, you're a man, or you're a woman, and you're not supposed to be homosexual.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Trump And Double Trouble
Donald Trump faces two issues - liberals encouraging rampant law-breaking - specifically in sanctuary cities - and Islamo-Arab imnperialism with the recent London attack - and idiotic criticism of Donald Trump Jr. for criticizing London's nitwit Islamic Mayor Sadiq Khan who'd downplayed Islamic terrorism in the past and such is enabling it.....just in time in latter May for an Islamic terrorist to kill twenty-two people in Manchester at an Ariana Grande concert.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Iran's Nuclear Side Deals
The case of Iran's purchase of 950 tons of weapons-grade uranium from Kazakhstan shows British (as opposed to Obama-era US) resistance to Iran and also that Obama lied to everyone about his deal with Iran.
There is also the related subject of military leader Qassem Soleimani, who heads Iran's Qods Force, tasked with leading Islamo-Arab imperialism.
There is also the related subject of military leader Qassem Soleimani, who heads Iran's Qods Force, tasked with leading Islamo-Arab imperialism.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Obama Investigated Trump
Democrats are in denial of this, shown in their parsing during the Comey hearing.
It gets worse, as investigations expose Obama and company as the real criminals.
"Could it be the Democrats were "stricken.....because they found out President Trump did wiretap Trump for political purposes?"
It gets worse, as investigations expose Obama and company as the real criminals.
The Stupidity Of Politics
Victor Hanson showcases how people are pummeled by the stupidity of leftism.
Are Restrictor Plates Returning To NASCAR Tracks?
According to NBC Sports NASCAR will run restrictor plates on the Xfinity cars at Indianapolis, this following an encouraging test session at the Brickyard in 2016. The report became fact as NASCAR made the announcement on March 23. Drivers Ryan Reed and Blake Koch expand on the package here. The most intriguing angle is the use of drag ducts, where air blasts into the nose and out the front wheelwells; the IMS test indicated they work.
As one who has studied the history of racing may expect the restrictor plate controversy has raged from 1988 onward with drivers predictably speaking against the restrictor plate, yet in the nearly thirty years since the restrictor plate was re-introduced to NASCAR the case against it has been thoroughly discredited by three decades of actual racing. And alternatives are always presented - Dale Jarrett claiming "open the aerodynamics some....let them have the horsepower trying to do it."
Yet in the history of racing those is search of examples where having more horsepower or adding horsepower opened up passing will fail to find any.
MRN call of the 1971 Yankee 400, a restrictor plate race.
NASCAR first mandated restrictor plates in August 1970 until late-September 1971 when it went to carburetor sleeves - in July 1973 NASCAR returned to running restrictor plates and in March 1974 the Southeastern 500 at Bristol was the last race to run them until 1988. Michigan in 1971 saw two competitive races with the plate, such as the Yankee 400. NASCAR nearly mandated the plate for 1979 when several tracks were repaved and speeds shot up markedly as a result - analyst Greg Maness adds that the Chevrolet Laguna S-3 was hit with the plate for 1978 and this is part of why that successful marque was dropped after 1977.
"Some people were saying they would not be able to pass...." So noted Ned Jarrett two laps into the 1988 Daytona 500, the first to run restrictor plates since 1974.
While not as competitive as the Daytona 500, that year's Firecracker 400 and Diehard 500 saw eye-popping finishes.
Ned Jarrett repeatedly mocked the opinion that the restrictor plate impeded ability to pass in his racecasts at Daytona and Talladega - because the racing itself disproved the view against it.
People who cite the 2000 New Hampshire 300 as a case against restrictor plates ignore how in the radial tire era stock cars have long struggled to pass there and everywhere - when the Modifieds race at New Hampshire they have run restrictor plates since the track opened - with no impediment to passing at all.
It also ignores how the longer the drivers ran with this plate package the more used to it they became and the more aggressive they started to get in the racing. Restrictor plate usage far beyond just this one race would certainly have seen drivers figure out passing in such a horsepower box.
The notion - advanced by many, not just Dale Jarrett - that adding horsepower will increase passing not only is not supported by any realworld evidence, it is further discredited by Indycar's absurd push-to-pass button, which adds short bursts of extra horsepower akin to nitrous oxide usage - it has been in Indycars for several years with zero discernable increase in incidence of passing. It was bulkier racecar bodies, air-displacement wings - and the combination present in the modern-day Wheldon-12 racecar - with no particular increase in horsepower that opened up passing (the use of air-displacement by Indycars also brings to mind NASCAR's successful roof blade package, curiously never used in race conditions on smaller tracks despite several test sessions with this package at Charlotte).
The blunt reality is Dale Jarrett is wrong. NASCAR has needed to expand restrictor plate usage for two decades. The New Hampshire experiment should not have ended in that one race and the pending use of restrictor plates at Indianapolis should not be limited to that one race - or that one weekend - either. The fact is NASCAR has too much horsepower by over 250 and has had such for one and a half generations.
The Camping World Trucks have run small engine spacers - which serve the same effect as the restrictor plate - for a number of years and they have seen excellent racing.
Balancing the horsepower, tire, downforce, and drafting effect is how Indycar has exploded the last quarter-century in competitive racing and how NASCAR can reach that same end. Restrictor plates have worked - period - so NASCAR should mandate them not just for Indianapolis, but beyond.
NASCAR is shooting for racing like this (from Indy Lights in 2016 and 2013) for the Brickyard and elsewhere - with racecars that are underpowered.
As one who has studied the history of racing may expect the restrictor plate controversy has raged from 1988 onward with drivers predictably speaking against the restrictor plate, yet in the nearly thirty years since the restrictor plate was re-introduced to NASCAR the case against it has been thoroughly discredited by three decades of actual racing. And alternatives are always presented - Dale Jarrett claiming "open the aerodynamics some....let them have the horsepower trying to do it."
Yet in the history of racing those is search of examples where having more horsepower or adding horsepower opened up passing will fail to find any.
MRN call of the 1971 Yankee 400, a restrictor plate race.
NASCAR first mandated restrictor plates in August 1970 until late-September 1971 when it went to carburetor sleeves - in July 1973 NASCAR returned to running restrictor plates and in March 1974 the Southeastern 500 at Bristol was the last race to run them until 1988. Michigan in 1971 saw two competitive races with the plate, such as the Yankee 400. NASCAR nearly mandated the plate for 1979 when several tracks were repaved and speeds shot up markedly as a result - analyst Greg Maness adds that the Chevrolet Laguna S-3 was hit with the plate for 1978 and this is part of why that successful marque was dropped after 1977.
"Some people were saying they would not be able to pass...." So noted Ned Jarrett two laps into the 1988 Daytona 500, the first to run restrictor plates since 1974.
While not as competitive as the Daytona 500, that year's Firecracker 400 and Diehard 500 saw eye-popping finishes.
Ned Jarrett repeatedly mocked the opinion that the restrictor plate impeded ability to pass in his racecasts at Daytona and Talladega - because the racing itself disproved the view against it.
People who cite the 2000 New Hampshire 300 as a case against restrictor plates ignore how in the radial tire era stock cars have long struggled to pass there and everywhere - when the Modifieds race at New Hampshire they have run restrictor plates since the track opened - with no impediment to passing at all.
It also ignores how the longer the drivers ran with this plate package the more used to it they became and the more aggressive they started to get in the racing. Restrictor plate usage far beyond just this one race would certainly have seen drivers figure out passing in such a horsepower box.
The notion - advanced by many, not just Dale Jarrett - that adding horsepower will increase passing not only is not supported by any realworld evidence, it is further discredited by Indycar's absurd push-to-pass button, which adds short bursts of extra horsepower akin to nitrous oxide usage - it has been in Indycars for several years with zero discernable increase in incidence of passing. It was bulkier racecar bodies, air-displacement wings - and the combination present in the modern-day Wheldon-12 racecar - with no particular increase in horsepower that opened up passing (the use of air-displacement by Indycars also brings to mind NASCAR's successful roof blade package, curiously never used in race conditions on smaller tracks despite several test sessions with this package at Charlotte).
The blunt reality is Dale Jarrett is wrong. NASCAR has needed to expand restrictor plate usage for two decades. The New Hampshire experiment should not have ended in that one race and the pending use of restrictor plates at Indianapolis should not be limited to that one race - or that one weekend - either. The fact is NASCAR has too much horsepower by over 250 and has had such for one and a half generations.
The Camping World Trucks have run small engine spacers - which serve the same effect as the restrictor plate - for a number of years and they have seen excellent racing.
Balancing the horsepower, tire, downforce, and drafting effect is how Indycar has exploded the last quarter-century in competitive racing and how NASCAR can reach that same end. Restrictor plates have worked - period - so NASCAR should mandate them not just for Indianapolis, but beyond.
NASCAR is shooting for racing like this (from Indy Lights in 2016 and 2013) for the Brickyard and elsewhere - with racecars that are underpowered.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Empathy's Failure As Policy
Empathy's Unintended Consequences
When you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, then-senator Barack Obama told a standing-room-only crowd in 2006 at Xavier University's commencement, whether they are close friends or distant strangers—it becomes harder not to act, harder not to help. Empathy has become, in many precincts of 21st-century America, both the preferred tool for moral reasoning and a paramount value in its own right. But in this well-reasoned tract, Paul Bloom punctures empathy's seeming invulnerability by outlining its serious flaws, arguing instead for the use of compassionate but rational judgment in reaching ethical decisions.
Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, begins by defining empathy, with most contemporary psychologists and philosophers, as the act of feeling what you believe other people feel—experiencing what they experience. He also explores the nature of empathy, including its roots in the human brain—specifically, the cingulate cortex and anterior insula. Because empathic reactions to the experiences of others trigger the same gray matter as if you yourself underwent that experience, claiming 'I feel your pain' isn't just a gooey metaphor: it can be made neurologically literal.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Climate Change As Mass Movement
The mythology of climate change serves as a tool for recruiting well-drilled illiterates to support Intellectuals - a familiar disease from the beginning of the 20th century and which involves angry denunciation of "deniers," except the actual science supports the "deniers".
Friday, March 17, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
The Therapeutic Myth
Crime and other forms of societal violation are never defeated by therapy - only by punishment.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
The False Claim About 24 Million 'Losing' Insurance
The Democrats as usual use a fraudulent and dishonest argument
In the hour it was reported with smothering ubiquity that the GOP's Obamacare replacement would cause 24 million individuals to lose insurance, the debate about government health care policy was given a bucket of buffalo wings, a wet nap, and a day off. It was about to get sloppy and awfully lazy.
24 million people losing insurance is roughly equivalent to the population of 15 particular states, Rachel Maddow tweeted, not one of them with more than five electoral votes, but, when listed vertically, appeared ominous. Almost 50,000 users have hit the retweet button.
That's 50,000 users who have participated in the week's biggest question-begging exercise. Nowhere in the Congressional Budget Office's projections about the American Health Care Act did the agency say the bill would cause 24 million to lose coverage—cancel it or take it from them. The report, rather, estimated that the total number of individuals insured under the Republican plan would eventually be 24 million fewer than the total insured under Obamacare. Why is that?
Enough With Phony Islamophobia
"Americans are constantly warned by mainstream media that our prejudices and intolerance 'radicalize' Muslims.
It's the phony recruitment argument Barack Obama used to oppose US victory in Iraq and "Islamophobia" continues to impress reality by its nonexistence - especially as Muslims themselves fabricate stories of Islamophobic violence.
"Hate crime hoaxes empower Islamic extremists."
UPDATE: January 21, 2018: Toronto witnesses the latest social hoax - the hijab hoax.
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