We are disturbed to learn that @CalgaryOpera has removed bass-baritone Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega from future performances of "Tosca" after he unveiled a Palestinian flag during the curtain call on opening night. Art is political, and artists should not be punished for expressing support for the Palestinian people as they face a genocide. This decision must be reversed.

People are fundamentally law-abiding. Even when they shouldn't be.

If you think these people are stopping at Europe you are dumber than you look

He stopped the shooter, but he didn't stop the shooting. That's the difference. Three kids and their teacher were already dead, and an unarmed teacher had tackled him first. YOU spent decades blocking laws that keep guns away from kids. Now you're taking a victory lap? Fuck that.

GRAVITY KILLS! -9.8 M/sec^2 IS OPPRESSION! REPEAL THE LAW OF GRAVITY!

He got a few details wrong. The gist was, in the end, correct.

My great grandmother didn't go batshit crazy and build a lot of weird stairways and doors to nowhere in her house just to stand by and let you destroy this poor man's business. The Winchesters stand proudly with the McCormicks.

To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad: Do not blame the French people for this. We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no. Here are the numbers your media won't show you. 70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today. 79% want a tougher immigration policy. 77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration. 83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home. And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years. This is not a fringe. This is the French people. In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again. That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway. So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations. In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders. It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed. What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it. The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did. So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this." The French never chose this. They were forced into it. If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us. If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.

We do not have to live like this.

There are a number of visual & spatial illusions you have to get over as a pilot. The “Black Hole” effect is one. It’s visual & described below. A related effect is the “False Horizon”; sloping lights lead you to think you’re level but actually in a bank. The Vestibular system is your inner ear; fluid inside moves around & affects balance. Acceleration of the jet moves the fluid & can have some nasty effects… Rapidly going from a climb to level flight (pushing over) leaves a pilot feeling like they are tumbling backward. The instinctual reaction is to push the nose forward, putting you in a steep, fast dive. In a bank, moving your head rapidly will cause the inner ear fluid to move & also create a tumbling sensation. This is a “Coriolis Illusion”. Rapidly accelerating makes you feel like the jet is pitching up, which will make you want to push the nose down. To be fair, the jet will raise the nose is you rapidly accelerate, as it’s “trimmed” to maintain a constant speed, so you do have to adjust the pitch some. That’s a “Somatogravic Illusion”. Finding a single point of light in the dark and staring at it too long produces “Autokinesis”, in which that point of light starts appearing to move. This is easy to do when staring at a single star. You’ll start thinking the jet must be moving…or it’s a UFO. If you are in a prolonged bank, like flying in a circle, when you correct it you’ll often get “The Leans”. You feel like you are turning in the opposite direction, but you are actually level. Kind of similar to the Leans, a prolonged turn can result in a “Graveyard Spiral” if exaggerated. The inner ear stops sensing the turn, you level out, think you are turning sharply the other way, so you go back into your original bank, except steeper. The jet starts losing altitude rapidly & you spiral all the way to the graveyard. This famously killed JFK Jr.. There are also forces you feel in your skin, muscles, etc., like “Gs”. We call this “Seat of the Pants Flying”, probably because the G’s either push you in the seat or pull you out of it. Flying Seat of the Pants is a terrible plan. Anyway, even for very intelligent people who study this stuff, learning to fight these illusions is a challenge. You have to trust the instruments even when your body is screaming at you they are wrong. With time, you get pretty good at it. I rarely run into these anymore, but every once in a while one of them surprises me. I just look down & keep my eyes on the instruments for a little bit, then the world returns to normal. At some airfields, before beginning the approach our briefing will include mention of things like the Black Hole & False Horizon effects. It’s a preparation for getting into these illusions, then reminding yourself “oh yeah, we knew this was going to happen”. Anyway, as I said it’s not something that’s a significant threat at the airline level. On the low-time Cessna pilot level, though…it will kill you, and the airplane can be completely out of control in an astonishingly short period of time.

Obamacare DESTROYED healthcare in America. We were the world leader before it.

For the people who are wowed by Tesla’s marketing stunt yesterday, I ask you this: (1) What purpose could such a car have in a civil society; (2) how will the liability exposure alone not ensure that this car will never see the light of day? I’ll hang up and listen.

It is almost if it is their manifest intention to destroy our culture.

There is absolutely a culture that is native to the South, that encompasses regional music, food, politics and shared history, and nobody has ever denied that. That culture was shaped by life in the Appalachians, access to the Atlantic coast, proximity to the gulf, and any number of other geographical factors, and nobody has ever denied that either. A person from say, California couldn't be expected to understand that culture, but if he moved to the South he could be expected to assimilate to it, or at least understand it enough to work around it. But if a MILLION Californians moved in all at once, why would they bother? By virtue of their numbers, assimilating to the preexisting local culture becomes secondary to perpetuating their native Californian culture, which is entirely distinct from what they find in the South, having been shaped by different founders in different lands with different values. What then, for the native Southerners? You'll find that native populations RARELY throw their hands in the air and say "whelp, I guess the times are a-changing" when facing the diminishment (annihilation?) of their culture. In fact, you'll find people get all weepy about it on behalf of Native Americans, Aztecs, Aboriginals in Australia, the entire country of India, Easter Islanders and any other population that found themselves overrun against their will. States are ABSOLUTELY unique, and it's an act of willful ignorance to pretend otherwise. Texans are the same as New Yorkers? Oklahomans are the same as Mainers? That's silly. Each of these are unique and deserve to continue forward, distinct and unhomogenized.

I’ll take “Why does Appalachia have a 1 in 755 violent crime rate?” Alex?

Nazis enjoyed drinking water. You enjoy drinking water. Therefore you are a Nazi. Individuals such as this one don't call you a "Nazi" because you are one. They call you a "Nazi" because they want it to be socially acceptable to uninstall you and your family in your sleep.