John C. Wright's Journal

Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler makes the following remark concerning the alleged manifesto leaked to LWC regarding the transgender mass shooter of Nashville. Impossible as yet to say whether the manifesto is real. The fact that the mainstream news is ignoring and down playing it, while YouTube outright banned it for ‘supporting violent criminal organizations’, however, it is quite suggestive.
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https://x.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1721567346421088543?s=20

“Just so we’re perfectly clear, the Nashville mass shooter killed children in the name of Critical Race Theory while under the evil delusion of Queer Theory. Period.”

My comment: avoiding clarity at all costs is the prime directive of left-wing thinking.

The left has been absorbed by Gnostic theory. They regard themselves as being too enlightened for logical reasoning.

The algorithm on Al Gore’s amazing Internet proffered this clip from a foreign film to me, and I thought it fascinating in its close-first-person approach.

I do not speak Russian, and did not see anything else of the film. The editing and pacing and composition of the shots tell the story so well that even someone who saw and knows nothing else about the film, and who cannot follow a word of dialog, can follow.

Hat-tip to Instrapundit

From the Wall Street Journal:

How ‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science: Especially in climate and Covid research.

Scientists were aghast last month when Patrick Brown, climate director at the Breakthrough Institute in Berkeley, Calif., acknowledged that he’d censored one of his studies to increase his odds of getting published. Credit to him for being honest about something his peers also do but are loath to admit.

In an essay for the Free Press, Mr. Brown explained that he omitted “key aspects other than climate change” from a paper on California wildfires because such details would “dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.” Editors of scientific journals, he wrote, “have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives.”

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Today’s must-read review of a sciffy flick that came out in 1997 as an unfaithful adaptation of a speculative fiction novel from 1957.

I am not allowed to say or type the name of this film, since it bears the same name as a well-loved mil-SF novel that founded the genre. But if I may quote:

None of Robert A. Heinlein’s works have ever transferred well to the big or even the little screen and you’re right they haven’t.  All of the pictures that have been made from them have been bad in their own way.    Destination Moon was in no way even close to Rocket Ship Galileo and Heinlein himself worked on the script.  The Puppet Masters was dull and badly paced.   Predestination, came the closest but again kinda boring and they ruined the ending. None of them are much good.

But here is the thing, while none of them ever felt like a Heinlein book, there was at least respect for the works they were based on, even if they couldn’t get the vibe right in the film adaptation.

Starship Troopers’ open hatred of its source material stands in stark contrast.  This is a film version of a book that appears to have been put together by its most virulent critics. Every single groundless criticism ever leveled at the novel was painted in great big sweeping brush strokes on the big screen.

My comment: Every word of this review I applaud, and, indeed, every letter, down to the jot above the iota.

Please read.

RE:View Starship Troopers

A personal note: the only thing I like about this film is Casper van Dien, because he starred in Thrill Seekers (also known as The Time Shifters), a TBS 1999 science fiction television film directed by Mario Azzopardi. I wrote the treatment of the film, so the ideas are mine.

You can see it here: https://youtu.be/zTONc49V3YA?si=1h-E1A9LuuWlWgZt

It is better than Verhoeven’s schlock film.

Perhaps more drollery is called for:

I found this on twitter, posted by Kevin Sorbo. Credit to Matt Taibbi on Substack.

Perhaps a bit of humor is called for:

Take a look:

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Craig Robertson, a Utah man, was shot and killed during an FBI raid early Wednesday morning. The FBI claim he made posts on social media threatening to Joe Biden. Fake News reports that the investigation began in April and the U.S. Secret Service was notified by the FBI in June: “In addition to threatening posts the man under investigation suggested online he was making plans to take physical action. The threats had been deemed credible.”

Among the posts allegedly made by Robertson was one published on Aug. 6, three days before Biden’s scheduled visit, according to the complaint. “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle,” the post said, according to the complaint, which referred to the post as a “willful true threat to kill or cause injury to kill President Biden.”

— this is from the state-controlled corporate news.

Every other report from the mainstream identifies the man as “A Trump Supporter” or MAGA. Think about that.

Their column does not mention that it was a pre-dawn raid, used flash-bang grenades while storming the house, and that the old man was halt, walking with difficulty using a cane, caretaking his blind son.

From Twitter, on the other hand, Larry Correia, a longtime friend and fellow author who knows somewhat of guns pointed me to this tweet by an ex-officer. I quote in full.

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Only very rarely does anyone on the Left wonder why the peasants refer to the mainstream media as “Fake News” — something they regard as not merely insulting, but uppity.

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— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) August 13, 2023

 
Meanwhile, the news reports that the Global Climate Catastrophe Certain Death Super Apocalypse may be responsible for ischemic heart disease, stroke, heart failure, or arrhythmia. Global Warming will also be responsible for mass starvation in India in the upcoming 1980’s, and the ice-free Arctic summers in the upcoming 2000’s.