it's an irrational, unserious policy.
i supported dismantling the fascist iranian state with extreme violence. as it is, these are the worst free trade negotiations of all time.
Friday, March 20, 2026
canada has consistently behaved like a giant asshole, internationally, since trudeau was elected, as we fight a stupid and unjust war to prevent independence in eastern "ukraine" and refuse to engage in a just war against islamist extremists that want to wipe us out and destroy our culture.
canada has become the giant asshole of the world.
worse, canada completely lacks any sort of self-awareness as to it's utter and absolutely depraved assholery.
if we collapse, we deserve it.
it doesn't make sense to get into a protracted struggle over the oil refineries in iran, particularly kharg island. that's the kind of fucking around i warned against. they are not carrying out the total war against the iranian state that was required to make this worthwhile and effective, but are instead trying to capture resources to use in negotiations against an opponent that is irrational and cannot be negotiated with.
i support bringing marines and other troops into the area, but i want to see a blockade of iran, not an attempt to open shipping. there should be an arab occupation of the north of the persian gulf, with the attempt to annex the arab and baluchi majority regions from iran.
the decision to abandon iraq makes canada and other nato countries look opportunistic and selfish. we're demonstrating ourselves as poor allies and bad friends.
we've had several 20+ or nearly 20 degree days in windsor this year, and none of them have been forecast. it hit 23 today. the forecast was 17.
it's march, and this back and forth happens in march, but what i'm getting at is the forecast and not the weather itself. whatever is causing the weather, the forecasts should be able to get it within 12-24 hours at worst, if the models are nearly complete. they're not getting it because they're not complete. i've alluded to a missing factor. i've also alluded to the models over-shooting enso and under-shooting the atlantic.
but now it's 5.
it's march, and this back and forth happens in march, but what i'm getting at is the forecast and not the weather itself. whatever is causing the weather, the forecasts should be able to get it within 12-24 hours at worst, if the models are nearly complete. they're not getting it because they're not complete. i've alluded to a missing factor. i've also alluded to the models over-shooting enso and under-shooting the atlantic.
there's apparently a scary amount of hot air off the coast of arizona right now creating a ridge over north america.
however, the totality of these observations at this time of the year is more consistent with a series of ssws, and i'll draw your attention to the strong aurora borealis happening right now.
the weather is complicated. there's lots of things happening, and they cancel each other out. it's not trivial to account for everything and get it right.
but the forecasts are consistently getting it wrong in exactly the same way over and over and it's resulting in a constant ~5 degree cooling error. that is, the forecasts are constantly for highs that are five degree less than the observed temperatures. this constant error factor is a mistake in how to work the effects of the solar maximum into the models, due to not understanding the effects of the increase in solar radiation, and the ssw events it causes.
there's a few changes in the gdp ranking to take note of.
india is now at #4, pushing japan to #5. japan, for a long time, was at #3, and germany was at #4, with the uk and france holding detente at 5 and 6.
look at this:
india is now at #4, pushing japan to #5. japan, for a long time, was at #3, and germany was at #4, with the uk and france holding detente at 5 and 6.
russia has leapfrogged both canada and brazil to enter the top ten. maybe canada should announce some more sanctions on russia. this is pushing canada that much closer to mexico, who continues to have a much higher growth rate.
can the russians catch italy to enter the g6?
spain and south korea have switched spots. oddly. that's a big jump for spain and a steep decline for the koreans.
turkey and indonesia have switched spots, which must have to do with shifts in global preferences for silly hats.
and it would appear that dutch hashish has finally overtaken the saudi product, giving them the edge after many years.
the americans should want some european help.....to enforce a blockade of iran. it's silly to suggest otherwise.
...but only the british really have a navy worth seriously deploying for this task.
i need to reiterate the importance of using arab troops, as this is their war. but the british have a navy, and the navy is already there. they are sending something after all, apparently. but washington is right to have ruffled feathers over this and those backroom deal makers in london should be thinking this through.
starmer's days may very well be numbered. it would be a last straw rather than a direct cause, but he's probably done.
there is a semitic deity, ishtar/astarte, that seems to have some relationship with the indo-european goddess of the dawn through a linguistic borrowing but not through direct comparative mythology. there are some claims that easter is a corruption of astarte. i'm not willing to discard the idea, a priori, as many are. the idea is less absurd on it's face than many may claim, as we know that there were all kinds of mystery cults in the roman empire. while easter does not seem to derive from astarte, jesus does seem to derive from isis.
it actually seems to be the other way around. the semitic sumerian name for the goddess ishtar actually seems to be inanna, which is an etymology that is very different and actually comes from a semitic sumerian word/root. astarte/ishtar appears to be an indo-european word borrowed by the semites to describe a semitic sumerian, rather than indo-european, deity. it might have origins during one of the early indo-european occupations of mesopotamia, and there were several before cyrus, some quite ancient.
so, easter is not derived from ishtar, but ishtar appears to be derived from the same word as easter.
because we have no historical record of indigenous german religion besides the language, which we can trace back to pie roots, it doesn't matter what the source of the stories about eostre are. the christians destroyed everything. we are left with the need for poetic license.
the idea left behind is clear enough.
what we know from the linguistics, which are indisputable, is that the german eostre was the same god as the greek eos, the roman aurora, the vedic usas, the lithuanian ausrine, etc. this god exists in all of the indo-european pantheons, including the german, as eoster, which we retain as easter. there is some direct evidence of this in the form of linguistically similar mother goddess worship in spain, france and germany, but the evidence is weak and indirect and not very important.
it is more useful to try to reconstruct eostre from the greek, roman, vedic and slavic traditions than to try to find it in the pre-roman destruction horizon. the roman/christian genocide of the celtic and germanic peoples was pretty thorough.
this is a video about eos. it doesn't directly mention eostre, but the linguistic pie reconstruction is neither controversial nor disputable.
this is where the word comes from.
this is a video on aurora, which is the roman version of the same god:
i actually think it's exceedingly important that neither the japanese nor the americans forget about pearl harbour.
while i'm still holding out for that secret ninja strike force, i don't think anybody expected the japanese to be involved in iran. it's worth remembering that the primary reason they occupied most of east asia was for the oil and the rubber. that was what that was actually about.
he probably should have called the brits because they're still there. nobody else was really very relevant.
but the japanese need this every now and again, and it's important they're reminded about it. they can't be allowed to live this down.
it's starting to look like israel is moving into the region south of the litani river to stay.
as mentioned, the region has been mostly inhabited by shi'te colonists from syria for some time now, who have driven out the indigenous christian groups and invited hezbollah in to set up institutions. the lebanese government has been unable to prevent this.
it's hard to oppose the idea on it's face. israel should be rewarded with an increase in territory for the hardships it endured after oct 7, and the lack of support it received from the surrounding countries. the israelis are morally justified in expanding territory into lebanon, syria and gaza itself (if it really wants) on these grounds. and lebanon is both unable and unwilling to govern this area south of the river.
there needs to be consequences for failing to prevent terrorism from existing on your territory.
it's a reasonable outcome.
the trudeau government ruined the country by systematically failing at everything.
the cost of living is through the roof and the quality of life is in the toilet. so, the media wants to ban facebook instead of address the objective economic indicators. typical.
it's the allegory of the cave in modern terms - if you just take away the internet, how will canadians know their lives suck? they won't. they'll just trudge their way through the emptiness of consumer capitalism without ever knowing there's any better ideas out there.
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