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Here's one of Michael Crichton's very finest quotes, especially applicable to climate "science":
"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right ... In science, consensus is irrelevant."
Best to everyone,
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I've been busy writing about the draft. Just saw the Pirates are resting Konnor Griffin today as part of their plan.
He went deep last night in his first AB. He's 20. I get being careful with him from a long term perspective in general, but for Christ sake. It would be nice if they actually created the appearance, at least, that they are prioritizing winning and trying to make the playoffs. But they just don't and I, for one, find it infuriating.
If you want his elbow to have a day off, DH him at least. But winning games is never the goal. Following their misguided process is.
Ludwig von Mises, Hayek’s early mentor, wrote one of the most brutal takedowns of socialism ever:
“The champions of socialism ... call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
I just saw the public discussion about Vance, not baptizing his children as infants.
To my Catholic Brothers and sisters, you should schedule a baptism as soon as possible for your kids.
One reason among many is the spiritual protection of your child. When we trace the cross on their head and claim the child for Christ, every demon, every angel can see that mark.
It matters.
For my brother priests, I beg you
in the name of Jesus, stop prohibiting baptism until parents jump through hoops.
I buried an infant this week whose pastor refused baptism for them. Enough with trying to control and protect yourself from feeling used.
Enough with the nonsense of “protecting the sacrament”.
Jesus doesn’t need you to protect him, but he does need you to protect the souls of these little ones.
If parents come to you seeking baptism for their child, you do it.
Something good is happening at this World Cup.
The Scots turned up. The English turned up. The Norwegians turned up. They sang their songs, got stuck in, and the Americans loved them for it. Glasgow and Boston are getting twinned off the back of it.
For 30 years we’ve been told to view the US as some sort of Great Satan — all imperialism and orange-man clichés. Not everyone buys it of course, but enough do.
And then Europeans actually go, and find a place that feels familiar. Makes sense to them. A bit richer, a bit further ahead, but recognisably ours. Settled by Europeans, still deeply European in its bones.
There’s a gathering-of-the-clans feeling to it. Old neighbours discovering they still like the same songs, the same drink, the same daft humour, and genuinely enjoying each other’s company.
None of it’s a surprise, really. It’s just been buried under so much politics that we forgot we were allowed to enjoy it.
Good to be reminded.
Pirates fans...
How's this for a bit of nostalgia?
Here's Tim Neverett's call of Tyler Callihan's second home run of the night:
#LetsGoBucs
When you finally understand that the climate cult, trans cult, and COVID cult are / were all built on the same house of cards (activism for a desired political outcome guised as “science”), it all becomes so much clearer.
Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor & Medical Authority
The most chilling argument for authoritarianism ever written is not in a political manifesto.
It is in a novel. Spoken by a 90-year-old Cardinal to a silent prisoner he intends to burn the next morning.
The prisoner is Christ, returned to 16th century Seville. The Cardinal has him arrested and comes to his cell at midnight to explain why he will be executed again.
His argument is not cruel. It is almost tender.
You gave people freedom, the Grand Inquisitor says. But freedom is a burden too heavy for most of them to carry.
They don’t want to choose. They want bread, and miracle, and authority. Give them someone to obey and something to believe in, and they will be happy.
We have corrected your work. We have given them what they actually need.
Dostoevsky wrote this in 1880.
In 2020, the Grand Inquisitor updated his résumé and applied to medicine.
The argument was structurally identical.
The population cannot evaluate evidence. The information is too complex. The stakes are too high.
Independent judgment in this domain is dangerous. Submit to the authority of those who know. The science is settled. The debate is over.
And the extraordinary thing, the thing Dostoevsky anticipated with prophetic precision, is how many people were grateful for it.
Not coerced. Grateful. Relieved to have the weight of judgment lifted. Eager to perform their compliance as evidence of their reasonableness and care.
The Grand Inquisitor understands human psychology more accurately than the idealists who believe people always want freedom. Some do. Many, when the burden is heavy enough, want to give it away.
And institutions that offer to carry it rarely give it back willingly.
Christ, in Dostoevsky’s parable, says nothing. He walks to the old man and kisses him softly on his dry lips.
Then he leaves.
Dostoevsky’s point is not that argument defeats authority. It is that something in the human being , something quiet and unkillable, cannot finally be administered away.
Your conscience is that thing.
No Grand Inquisitor, however credentialed, however certain, however genuinely caring, has the right to it.
And any system that asks for it should be answered with Dostoevsky’s silence.
And then your refusal.
@_Aria_2210 +/- 100
The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.
This is one of the greatest photos in Catholic history.
Despite his greatness, Fulton Sheen had been ostracized and cast away by the powers that be in the American Church by the time he was an old man. When Pope John Paul II came to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1981, Sheen was relegated to a far off side section.
As everyone was applauding and greeting the pope, he kept looking around, and finally asked: “Where’s Fulton?”
The pope embraced Fulton and said: “You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus Christ. You are a loyal son of the Church!"
This makes me cry with love.
Soon-to-be Blessed Fulton Sheen…Pray for us. 🙏
On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places.
At one point near the House Chambers I was walking downstairs when a trio of some special section, secret service looking men started pointing guns in my direction.
Confused and annoyed, I walked the other way and when I saw a normal police officer asked him why they were doing that.
He informed me a protestor (Ashli Babbit) had been killed, and advised me to leave the building.
I walked towards the exit and after a short rest on the bench I left.
I harmed nobody and damaged no property that day and complied with all police orders.
What I received for that was a pre-dawn raid at my parents house, where my 1 month post-partum wife and I were staying, on Biden's first day in office. His DOJ had signed the order to arrest me 3 hours after his inauguration.
In the subsequent weeks I received death threats online and harassing phone calls, something that would be ongoing for the next few years.
I was banned from Meta and Paypal. My wife and I were both debanked by PNC and banned from Airbnb. My wife was detained at the airport for hours with our newborn daughter.
I was charged with 4 misdemeanors and the 1512 unconstitutional felony. The government offered to drop the misdemeanors if I pled to the felony. The felony was a lie, so I refused and went to trial.
At trial the prosecution for 2 days straight was allowed to show footage to the jury of things that occurred around the Capitol I wasn't present for "for context." When we asked to put forward footage that contradicted the prosecution's "context" we were not allowed. They could show what they wanted, we could not.
Police officers were then put on the stand for the next 2 days who cried about their experiences. I had no idea who they were. They admitted they never saw me or interacted with me.
Nevertheless like every other J6er, I lost, and was sentenced to 4 years and $22k in fines and restitution. Yet even after the Supreme Court overturned the felony, the judge would not let me out until my misdemeanor sentences of a year were maxed out. Because she can't count she actually kept me in longer - to the extent she intervened at the last minute to make the prison release me on a Sunday, something that is against BOP rules. My family sat outside the prison gates the Friday before practically the whole day waiting in vain because of this pettiness.
But the government wasn't satisfied with their pound of flesh: after my release they took me back in for resentencing, to attempt to have me resentenced after the fact to my misdemeanors consecutively, so I'd be taken from my family again and have another 1.5 years behind bars. This time I won, as they had no legal precedent and it skirted on violating double jeopardy since I had served my full prison time. Even still, it cast a cloud over the holidays and cost me another 20k my family couldn't afford.
People ask whether prison was bad, and yeah of course prison sucked. It was a hard and violent place. I was present for a stabbing, and was lucky to avoid two fights and a race war.
But dealing with Biden's DOJ and the DC Judiciary was the real trauma - they would grind down your spirit by weaponizing the legal system and use the endless procedure to bankrupt you. I had nightmares for months after release that I had somehow been hit with new charges.
By the time I was pardoned by President Trump, I had spent literally every single day of Biden's presidency either in prison or under some form of supervision. I had incurred over $300k in legal fees and over $1 million in lost business.
It was a reign of terror, and yet it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala. The country should never forget it.
You want an explanation? I'll do this thing that people call research and make an argument based on data and not feelings.
So what's the value?
There is plenty of value to anyone who is being objective and not trying to write a hit piece. For example, you brought up North Carolina and their ticket sales .... that was a beautiful example of cherry picking data to support a preconceived viewpoint instead of actually making a real argument.
You can cherry pick UNC, how about cherry picking Pittsburgh?
Their average attendance for ACC home games the last three seasons is 49,947 with only three games over 50K. The most is 58,667 (Clemson, 2024).
Attendance for the Notre Dame game? 68,400.
Attendance for the Miami game two weeks later? 49,845.
How about Georgia Tech in 2024. Average attendance is 39,745 with a high of 47,358. Attendance for Notre Dame game? 59,021
Duke in 2023. Average attendance was 24,847. Duke vs Clemson game was 31,638. Attendance for the ND game? 40,768.
Same year, Louisville. Average attendance was 48,797. Attendance for the ND game? 59,081
You could write this story for the vast majority of ND vs ACC games. Since ND joined, ACC teams sellout 23% of their games. They sell out for 90% of the ND games.
Now, if you actually want to do your job and learn things, go look at the ticket prices for those games when Notre Dame is in town. Specifically, go look at what tickets were going for when Pitt played Notre Dame compared to when Pitt played Miami. So it's not just about "selling out" or "average attendance," the overall revenue increases far greater because Notre Dame games are almost always considered premium or marquee games.
Actually, I'll make it easier for you. I'll show current ticket prices for ND vs UNC, Louisville vs UNC, and NC State vs UNC. Do some math, even if each game is solid out, you really think they are making even close to the same revenue in those games? Anyone trying to tell the real story would have discussed this. By not doing so it comes across as pure spin.
Let's go look at TV numbers in ACC vs ACC games and then go look at the numbers in ACC vs Notre Dame games.
Miami was the ACC's most viewed team in the regular season by over 7 million. 29% of their total RS views were the ND game.
How about common opponents?
Pitt
vs. ND - 3.96M
vs. UM - 2.22M
Syracuse
vs. ND - 1.89M
vs. UM - 1.20M
Stanford
vs. ND - 1.52M (despite 10:00 PM kickoff)
vs. UM - 1.21M
How about common leagues? Both teams played a really good American team.
ND vs Navy - 3.4M
UM vs USF - 740K
Go ask ACC coaches why they always schedule their big recruiting weekends when they host Notre Dame. Go ask ACC coaches why they use getting to play Notre Dame as a pitch with recruits.
Finally, I'll use your own words. You wrote this:
"Notre Dame could solve the ACC’s possibly existential crisis in an instant. All that is necessary to ensure the future of the league is for the Irish to join as a full member, possibly even while dictating some of the terms it would prefer, such as retention of its lucrative TV contract for home football games."
So you're telling me that the best path forward for a dying league is to alienate a team that could solve it's problems?
I kept this story in my pocket for a long time....
In Pittsburgh, September 15th is Roberto Clemente Day.
Every year the whole organization fans out across the city. It's like Christmas. Roberto's family is there, Vera and the boys.
My first year as manager was 2011. We celebrated. We shook hands and moved on.
We didn't win.
19 consecutive losing seasons.
2012 rolls around. Same day, same celebration. We had another losing season, our 20th consecutive.
After the ceremony, Roberto Jr. walked over.
"My mom wants to talk to you."
We went into the dugout. Me, Vera, and her three sons.
She spoke in Spanish. I played four years of winter ball so I understood enough. She wasn't angry, but she was passionate. And I kept hearing Roberto's number come up.
Roberto Jr. translated.
"My mother wants you to know that there cannot be a 21st losing season. That was Roberto's number. It would be a disgrace to his legacy."
She was staring right at me.
Before I could even think about what to say, words came out of my mouth:
"I promise you, Vera. That won't happen."
Roberto Jr. looked at me and said, "You made my mom a promise. I hope you can keep it."
I said, "I hope I can keep it too."
I didn't tell my coaches. I didn't tell the players. I told my wife. That was it.
The next year, 2013, we broke the consecutive seasons losing streak. Ended it at 20.
On Roberto Clemente Day that September, Vera came walking across that field.
And I probably got one of the most meaningful hugs I've ever received in my life.
The players did all the heavy lifting. I just got the hug.
Some promises are worth making before you know if you can keep them.
@Pirates
“Truth, virtue, and courage are not necessarily enough, but they are our best bet.”
— Jordan Peterson
🚨 EVERY VACCINE BATCH HAD A DIFFERENT FORMULA. THE LOT NUMBERS JUST PROVED IT.
Not a theory. Not an interpretation. A dataset. 12,000 lot numbers. Cross-referenced with VAERS adverse event reports. The correlation is absolute.
A team of researchers — 4 statisticians, 2 pharmacologists, 1 former FDA regulator — published their findings on a decentralized server Wednesday. The paper is 147 pages. Peer review was impossible because no journal would touch it. So they released it directly to the public.
The finding: specific lot numbers produced 4,000% more adverse events than others. Not random variation. Not manufacturing inconsistency. A deliberate, systematic pattern.
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Lot numbers ending in 20A through 20F: near-zero adverse events. Saline. Placebo. Water with a label.
Lot numbers ending in 21K through 21X: moderate adverse events. Fatigue. Myocarditis. Blood clots. Hospitalization rates 300% above baseline.
Lot numbers ending in 22R through 22Z: catastrophic. Stroke. Cardiac arrest. Neurological damage. Death rates 8,100% above the statistical norm for any pharmaceutical product in history.
Three tiers. Three formulas. Distributed in a pattern that ensured no single hospital, no single city, no single demographic received enough catastrophic doses to trigger an obvious statistical signal.
They spread the damage thin enough to call it "rare side effects." But it wasn't rare. It was targeted.
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The distribution pattern wasn't random. The catastrophic lots were sent disproportionately to specific zip codes. Zip codes with high concentrations of military veterans. First responders. Independent business owners. Communities with historically low compliance to federal mandates.
The people most likely to resist were given the most dangerous doses.
The moderate lots went to urban centers with high media consumption — populations that would report mild symptoms, be told it was "normal," and return for boosters without question.
The placebo lots went to politicians, media figures, and pharmaceutical executives. The people who promoted it on camera. The people who told you it was "safe and effective" while receiving saline.
They took the same shot on television. They did not take the same formula.
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The 12,000 lot numbers are now mapped. Every batch. Every destination. Every outcome. The data is on the blockchain. It cannot be retracted. It cannot be memory-holed. It cannot be fact-checked into oblivion.
The former FDA regulator on the team submitted the dataset to the military tribunal with a single statement: "This was not negligence. This was a weapons deployment protocol disguised as public health."
The tribunal accepted it into evidence Thursday morning. Case number: GT-2026-0441.
Every lot number is a fingerprint. Every adverse event is a witness. Every death certificate is an indictment.
CODE: LOT-NUMBERS / 3-TIERS / ZIP-TARGETED / GT-2026-0441
They didn't give everyone the same shot. They gave everyone the shot they were assigned. Now the assignment list is evidence.
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Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
I don't think it can be said enough. Marcus Freeman is bringing Notre Dame back the program people once feared.
Marcus Freeman played the portal perfectly 23/24.
Two straight years, he bought a quarterback — not as a shortcut, but as a spark. The first one stabilized the program. The second one took Notre Dame to a National Championship.
It was intentional: buy now, build later.
Make the place cool. Make it competitive. Then let the recruits POUR in.
A temporary tactic with permanent consequences.
The perfect strategy.
To think he's doing all this with one of only two Independent programs should tell you how ELITE he is.
He's convincing players to choose Independence. He's finding the perfect people for this place because he's perfect for this place ☘️🔔
Now it's time to finish the job.
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