One of the very few things I Know to be True is that life, the universe, and everything operates as a pendulum.  As far as it may go in one direction, it will come back and go just as far in the opposite direction.  The pendulum can be pushed and pulled and forced to go farther than normal in a direction, but it cannot then be subsequently stopped from returning farther than normal in the other direction.  Something I’ve noticed in my brief time on this planet is that people who understand the way the Great Pendulum works tend to leave it the fuck alone.  They understand that while it is possible to manipulate the pendulum, any and every manipulation will inevitably, inescapably result in an equal and directly opposite reaction, not only undoing whatever progress was made bringing the pendulum further in the desired direction, but making things worse when the pendulum then goes deep in the opposite direction, even farther away from the original desired goal.  Conversely, the people I’ve seen who discover their ability to manipulate the pendulum and then think they can actually take over and control the behavior of the pendulum.  And it is always amusing to watch the shock cross their faces when the pendulum comes slamming back, hits the back of their already soft skulls and violently takes them out.
Two examples that come to mind of this phenomena in nature (keeping in mind my definitely of nature is likely fundamentally different from yours):  If you ever find yourself in a nuclear explosion, you’ll notice that initial blast packs a hell of a wallop: knocks over everything that it doesn’t vaporize.  Buildings, trains, forests, everything.  The things that escape vaporization and survive the initial blast might feel a tad cocky in that moment, but that is the last thing they will feel, because a shock wave the size of one from a nuclear explosion…all that energy going elsewhere instantly creates an inescapable vacuum, and it is as if there is another shock wave going in the opposite direction.  Anything that did survive or manage to stay put through the initial shock wave was weakened, and thus, not able to survive another shock wave in the opposite direction.  It the second wave, or the reaction to the initial action that finished a lot of things off.  A second example would be a hurricane: at first, black skies and unbelievably strong winds and bullet rain in one direction.  Then calm.  Sunshine.  The eye.  You think it’s over, that you survived, and then, the skies blacken again, but now the wind and rain are slamming into your life from the other direction!  And again, things already weakened from the first wave are usually in no shape to survive the second, opposite wave.
So it is with everything.  If you interfere with the pendulum of society and push it much out of its usual arc, there is going to be an equal and opposite reaction.

Mobs and radical movements always eat their own.  Always.  Which is something that the various cowering corporate entities presently desperately pandering to anyone will listen with meaningless and masturbatory virtue signaling completely fail to understand.  And it going to cost them in ways they can’t even imagine.  This LiveLeak video of idiots illustrates my point rather perfectly:

Jeff Bezos, Guitar Center, A&E, and the Paramount Network are the high-fivin’ white guys who have been totally engrossed in a marathon game of beer pong until about 2 seconds ago when they here politically correct bleating in the street and thought it they just stood in the window and gave the mob a big thumbs up that they’d be left alone.  What is not illustrated in the video is the landlord the high-fivin’ white guys are now going to call to try to get to come out and repair their busted-ass windows in the middle of the night.  The landlord is the demographic of loyal customers than have been sustaining your business for decades that you permanently alienated through your bullshitty and hypocritical virtue signalling early in the day.  “Fuck you and your windows,” the landlord would say.  At least that’s what I’d say.  You picked your side, your side broke your windows out.  Now you need to live with it.
Guitar Center has lost my business permanently.  I was a big fan of A&E until it was revealed earlier in the day that the network is run by spineless morons.  So no more A&E.  They were the only reason I was keeping cable.  So now I can get rid of cable.  I did have some dealings, or at least talks of dealings, with Paramount shortly after my first book came out, back when they were calling themselves Spike and attempting to market themselves as a men’s channel.  There will be no dealings with them in the future.

That spineless, nutless coward of a lieutenant in the NYPD that knelt down before the throbbing mob last week has now apologized for being a twat.  Robert Cattani emailed his “fellow officers” (if I were a cop in his precinct, him referring to me as a “fellow officer” would piss me off….we ain’t fellow anything, you undignified turd), saying, “the cop in me wants to kick my own ass.”  The cop in me wants to kick your ass, and I’m not even a cop.  In the email, Cattani expressed regret for his “horrible decision to give into a crowd of protesters’ demands.”  He continued, “The conditions prior to the decision to kneel were very difficult  as we were put center stage with the entire crowd chanting.”  Holy Jesus.  I’m sure it’s been a while since the academy, but surely, lieutenant, at some point in your training or career somebody must have told you that occasionally you will be asked to deal with large crowds who will be chanting.  They might even use colorful language.  They might even have bad breath.  It’s gonna  be scary, but whatever they come at you with, you’ve gotta stand your ground.  Didn’t they?  “I know I made the wrong decision.  We didn’t know how the protesters would have reacted if we didn’t and were attempting to reduce any extra violence.  I thought maybe that one protester/rioters who saw it would later think twice about fighting or hurting a cop.  I was wrong.  At least that [sic] what I told myself when we made that bad decision.  I know that it was wrong and something I will be shamed and humiliated about for the rest of my life.  We all know that a-hole in Minneapolis was wrong.  Yet we don’t concede for other officers’ mistakes.  I do not place blame on anyone other than myself for not standing my ground.”  Well, that’s might big of you, Bobbi.  “I could not imagine the idea of ever coming back to work and putting on the uniform I so wrongly shamed.  However, I decided that was the easy way out for me and I will continue to come to work every day being there for my personnel.”  Unless, of course, a big crowd shows up and god forbid starts chanting, and then all bets are off.

I guess the guy gets a point for acknowledging his testicular deficit and apologizing.  But I saw a lot of cops kneeling.  I saw a lot of citizens kneeling.  They all owe humiliated and shamed grovelling apologies to their fellow officers and fellow citizens.  But I seriously don’t understand how they can live with themselves, having to wake up every day for the rest of forever and have the face they see in the mirror be that of a coward.

N.P.: “Pretty Vacant – Live From Finsbury Park, London/1996” – Sex Pistols

Hot damn, dear reader…today’s word count was the highest so far this year.  It actually started in the middle of the night last night.  And I’m still going.  All book stuff.  I think I’ve made a decision about the book.  Not sure…I need another night to think about it.  Maybe I’ll tell you about it tomorrow.
This level of productivity feels very comfortable.  I might actually in a good mood (in spite of the scorching summer sun which needs to fuck right off).

N.P.: “Night Hitcher” – Major Parkinson

Today was okay, dear reader.  Got a lot on the page, and stayed away from the news.
I hope you’re doing well.

N.P.: “Tiefer” – In Strict Confidence

In the embarrassing sea of pusillanimous derelictions of duty shown recently, the officer above is the one I would keep.  If I was the mayor, I’d make that man Chief of Police and fire the rest of those assholes.  Seriously.   Fuck ’em.  Bring in the State Police until you can find some of your citizens who can stay on their feet their entire shift and not melt into obsequious and cowering useless shits.
Where I come from, and well, where I’m sitting right now, we don’t kneel for anything.  No man, no mob, no god.  It must feel disgusting to wake up one morning knowing you knelt before something the day before.

N.P.: “No Feelings” – Sex Pistols

The United States is neither inherently nor systemically racist.  Question the narrative.

N.P.: “Can You Hear Me – Acoustic” – Korn

What’s happenin’, dear reader.  Today was a good day.  Wanna know why it was a good day?  Regardless, I shall tell you.  Today was a good day because I DIDN’T TURN ON THE FUCKING TV.  Absolutely amazing.  Wrote a bunch of good stuff, mood was just sort of automatically elevated…I highly recommend.  Put on some music, read a book…that’s the business.

N.P.: “Who Do You Dance For” – Patron

Question the narrative.  Facts don’t care about feelings.  And neither do I, really.

• In 2016, 466 whites were killed by police; 233 blacks were killed by police.
• Whites are 76.5% of the U.S. population (including Hispanics); blacks are 13.4% of the U.S. population.
• Whites commit 59% of violent crimes (defined as murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault); blacks commit 37.5% of violent crimes.
• One out of 8,511 blacks is arrested for murder; one in 58,582 whites is arrested for murder.
• Blacks are approximately 6.8 times more likely than whites to be arrested for murder.
• One out of 2,800,438 blacks is arrested for killing a cop, one out of 7,674,278 whites is arrested for killing a cop.
• Blacks are 2.74 times more likely than whites to be arrested for killing a cop.
• More than twice as many blacks (533) murdered whites in 2016 than whites (243) murdered blacks.
• Black males are 6% of the U.S. population.  Black males are responsible for 42% of the cop killings in the last decade.
• In 2015, a cop was 18.5 more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was likely to be killed by a cop.
• in 2016, 222 black males were killed by police.  16 were unarmed.  445 white males were killed by the police.  20 were unarmed.

Then there’s this from Heather Mac Donald:  “Between 2012 and 2015, blacks committed 85.5 percent of all black-white interracial violent victimizations (excluding interracial homicide, which is also disproportionately black-on-white).  That works out to 540,360 felonious assaults on whites.  Whites committed 14.4 percent of all interracial violent victimizations, or 91, 470 felonious assaults on blacks.”
#don’tbelievethehype
#actualfactsmatter

N.P.: “Black Lipstick” – Powerman 5000

We’d like to wish Angelina Jolie a very happy birthday.  She turns 45 today.  Happy birthday AJ!

N.P.: “Closer to the End” – Mortiis

The number of unarmed black people killed by police in the U.S. last year was 9.  The number of unarmed white people killed by police in the U.S. last year was 19.  The number of police officers killed in the U.S. so far (by gunshots, assaults, and vehicular assaults) in the U.S. so far this year (which is not yet even halfway over) is 39.

Of the 4 officers involved in the death of George Floyd, only one was white.  The three others appear to be black, Asian, and Latino.  The Floyd family commissioned a private autopsy from Dr. Michael Baden who concluded that while Floyd died from asphyxia, it was actually the officer kneeling on Floyd’s back that caused the asphyxia.  The officer on his neck did more to slow/limit the blood flow to Floyd’s brain, but that was not the cause of death.

There has been exactly nothing to indicate that the murder of George Floyd was racially motivated.  Nothing.  Whether it was the white officer with his knee in Floyd’s neck, or any of the non-white officers who actually caused Floyd’s death, there were no racist remarks made.  There was no racist chatter on the police radio (as there was in the Rodney King incident).  Evidently there was no comment regarding race during the entire Floyd incident.  Might race have been a factor?  Maybe…that is not known yet.  Might other factors have contributed?  Sure.  The white officer and Floyd knew each other, and had been coworkers previously.  Certainly worth exploring, perhaps, before using the incident as a launching pad for protests against an entire country for systemic racism.  The American public has been so rhetorically bludgeoned by this narrative that they now see any incident between people of different races as blatantly racist rather than simply incidental.

Not a single public voice has at any point done anything but condemn the murder of George Floyd.  As soon as it because public, it was vociferously condemned by every police chief in the country.  No one has defended the actions of the police in this case.  All four officers were immediately fired, and days later, murder charges filed and all four officers are behind bars.  As they should be.  That is the judicial system functioning exactly as it’s supposed to.

The most disappointing aspect of the recent chaos has been witnessing otherwise intelligent people completely abandon facts and act instead on feelings alone.  It’s alarming how easily the present generation of Americans can be manipulated/controlled.  But childlike gullibility is the inevitable result of not teaching any kind of critical thinking skills whatsoever in our education system.
I sometimes think I should use this to my advantage.  The one-eyed man being King in the land of the blind and all that.

N.P.: “The Moon is Disgusting” – That 1 Guy

Welp, 24 hours later and curfews are being completely ignored, looting and burning are still happening, and now numerous police officers have been shot.  At this point any violence, rioting, or unrest that is happening is only happening because cowardly local and state leaders are allowing it to happen.  The prime directive of government is to keep your citizens, and when the government fails to do that, it is time to talk seriously about removing some of these people from office immediately.  Gross dereliction of duty, malfeasance, egregious violations of their constitutional oaths: failures to establish justice, failure to ensure domestic tranquility, failure to provide for the common defense, failure to promote the general welfare.
There are increasingly numerous reports of private citizens whom, seeing the complete collapse and failure of local law enforcement and state national guards to keep people and their property safe, have had about enough and are handling things themselves.  Those numbers will start increasing exponentially every additional day the government continues to fail.

N.P.: “Man and Machine” – U.D.O.