Vox Popoli

A new legend

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 23:48:00 +0000

Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made by Jimbob channel, which will be coming soon to UATV.

And check out his appearance today on the Big Bear's livestream, where he made an interesting connection between the concepts of logos and the corrupt distilling of the human spirit into the corporate logo.

Tuesday PM Arktoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:34:00 +0000

STONETOSS Episode 7: Shelved

THE AWAKENER Episode 13: No More Exploitation

New York Governor resigns

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:30:00 +0000

The national Democrats have successfully ejected Andrew Cuomo from the New York governorship:

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned, bringing an end to a 40-year political career that made him a pandemic hero but is now in ruin thanks to a damning report by Attorney General Letitia James which labeled him a serial sexual harasser.

The narrative is still inconclusive as to why, though. It's not as if they drove Bill Clinton from office and his behavior was at least an order of magnitude worse.

Advertising doesn't work

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:51:00 +0000

Contra the popular business assumptions, all that "online ad revenue" is more akin to money laundering among the cognoscenti and voluntary donations from the ignorati than anything resembling the stimulation of demand in the prospective market:

I’ve often recounted the curious tale of how in the 1980s I worked for a marketing research start-up that created perhaps the all time best real world lab for carrying out Randomized Controlled Trials.
In eight towns, we bought the new laser beam checkout scanners for all the supermarkets and drug stores in town in return for their cooperation. We recruited 3000 households in each town who agreed to identify themselves to the checkout clerk, so we could record all their consumer packaged goods shopping. And we controlled what TV commercials they saw on cable TV. So we could divide our sample into test and control groups that had exactly identical amounts of purchasing of the client’s product over the previous year and then show them more or different ads for a year and measure how much their purchasing increased.
Even today. this sounds like science fiction, but it was all up and running 40 years ago.
Brand managers at CPG firms were initially wildly enthusiastic: finally, they could scientifically prove to the beancounters at headquarters that their advertising is so effective that they should double their ad budgets!
But after a half decade of spectacular growth in our service, it turned out more or new advertising only rarely increased sales. And I don’t mean that doubling the ad budget only increased sales in the test group of thousands of families by, say, 7% over sales in the control group of families, and that didn’t quite payout in terms of profitability. No, I mean, the typical result was that the sales in the test cell that saw twice as many ads as the control cell bought 0.1% less.
They turned off all their keyword-search ads, then measured actual sales:
TADELIS: And the impact on average was pretty much zero.
What was eBay’s existing belief about paid-search advertising?
TADELIS: The company believed that roughly 5 percent of sales were driven by paid-search advertising, meaning that they believed that if we would pull the plug on advertising, sales would drop by 5 percent. What we found was that sales dropped by about half a percent. So, that’s an order of magnitude less. And it was not statistically different from zero.
But maybe it’s still worth it to gain even that half a percent? Now we have to know what the advertising costs, and measure the return on investment.
TADELIS: When you did the return on investment for every dollar that eBay spends — eBay believed that for every dollar they’re spending, they’re getting roughly a dollar-and-a-half back, meaning 50 cents of net profits. And what we showed is that on average, they’re losing more than 60 cents on every dollar.
So, how did these results go over?
TADELIS: Well, the president of eBay, who later became the C.E.O., he cut the paid-search marketing budget immediately by $100 million a year.
So, what happened next? You might think — what with capitalism being the hyper-competitive, market-optimizing, perfect-information ecosystem it’s supposed to be — you might think that other companies, once they learned about this eBay research, would cut their online ad spending. Or at least commission their own research to test the theories. So, did they?
TADELIS: Excellent question. There was a lot of chatter online after our experiments became public, suggesting that folks at eBay don’t know what they’re doing. And paid-search advertising works wonderfully if you know how to do it. But of course, that was backed with no data and no analysis.
In other words, the digital-ad community did not rush to replicate the results.

In the early 1990s, my father's company was a leader in high-resolution graphics. They had always sold through a three-level distribution-dealer-end user structure, but saw their market position being eroded by inexpensive Taiwanese manufacturers going direct to the end user. So, they took out some very expensive, very prominent ads in PC Week, hired a number of people to take all the anticipated calls, and eagerly awaited the phone to start ringing.

I was one of the people assigned to the late 5-8 PM shift that covered the West Coast. I took one call on the third day. By the end of the first week, it became clear that the ads wouldn't even begin to pay for themselves, much less the additional staff.

Not all paid advertising is useless, but I would estimate that 99 percent of it is. Which, of course, is why every owner of a popular Internet site soon learns that no one is willing to pay anything for access to even large and dedicated communities.

Bindery Campaign Update 7

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:36:00 +0000

Days Left: 21

Status: 57.6 percent of goal.

The Iliad: 187/500

The Odyssey: 181/500

Tuesday AM Arktoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:34:00 +0000

BEN GARRISON Episode 15: A House Divided

CHUCK DIXON'S AVALON Episode 15: Fazer's Fate

Don't fear to walk away

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:50:00 +0000

Sometimes, the corporations and government offices will even back down:

9 young female employees of a NY court office all oppose C19V (They want kids)They organized & told their supervisor they will ALL walk out on the job if the C19V is mandated. The office cannot run without them. Result: the office is not mandating the shot.

No job, no career, no travel, is worth submitting to the Vaccine Nazi regime. And this is not the first example of an office backing down from an announced vaccine mandate of which I have heard.

Remember, many corporations are struggling because they can't find decent employees, so they're not eager to see their existing ones walk over nonsense like this.

Fauci spins ADE infections

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:05:00 +0000

The Vaccine Hitler has revealed how he plans to try to spin the CASE NIGHTMARE scenario of Antibody Dependent Enhanced (ADE) breakthrough infections of the vaccinated population permitting virus mutations that will hit the vaccinated much harder than the unvaccinated:

Fauci warns of ‘worse variant’ that ‘could impact the vaccinated’ if Covid-19 is allowed to keep mutating in unvaxxed population
In his latest bid to promote Covid-19 jabs, White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci upped his pandemic warnings and cautioned vaccinated individuals about an even “worse variant” that could come after Delta.
Those who remain unvaccinated, Fauci claimed in a Sunday interview with MSNBC, are responsible for the coronavirus mutating. This has led to the Delta variant, which health officials have continuously warned is partly behind the mass rise in cases and could lead to another surge in the fall.
“There's a tenet that everybody knows in virology: a virus will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate,” Fauci said. “Fortunately for us, the vaccines do quite well against Delta, particularly in protecting you from severe disease.”
But if you give the virus the chance to continue to change, you're leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant, and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine.

You would have to be literally retarded and completely ignorant of how mutations work to not see the obvious lies in Fauci's spin draft. Let's count the lies, deceptions, and misrepresentations.

Covid-19 is not mutating in the unvaxxed population any more than any other virus. It spreads freely there, subject to the natural immunities conveyed on a) those who have full immunity because they already had the disease and b) those who have partial immunity due to related coronaviruses and rhinoviruses.
Those who remain unvaccinated are not responsible for the coronavirus mutating.
The giveaway is here: "particularly in protecting you from severe disease". What's happening with the vaccines is similar to the consequence of not taking all your prescribed antibiotics and killing off all the bacteria infecting you. Fauci is admitting the vaccines are non-sterilizing, which means it is mutating in the vaccinated population.
The vulnerability Fauci references is the ADE scenario that Karl Denninger first laid out back in February 2020, the most serious of which is CASE NIGHTMARE KITTY, which would result in the death of every single vaccinated individual. Fortunately, it appears a lesser CASE NIGHTMARE scenario is in store, which is why the Vaccine Nazis are already pushing boosters on those who are vaccinated, as it is the vaccinated who will likely be most at risk from the mutated variants.
That variant WILL evade the negligible protection of the vaccine, because it is the vaccine itself that has created the vulnerability. That's what "Antibody Dependent Enhancement" essentially means.

Monday Arktoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:06:00 +0000

EMBER WAR Episode 15: Space Combat

BOVODAR & THE BEARS Episode 10: Now We Have a Mission

SAVAGE MEMES Episode 1: Homeschooling

Arkhaven is pleased to announce a new addition to Arktoons, Savage Memes by Made by Jimbob. Savage Memes will run three times per week and is currently scheduled for a M-W-F routine.

Less than nothing

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 17:13:00 +0000

That's what the Pfizer vaccine does, according to a large Pfizer-funded study:

The highly-anticipated Pfizer’s safety and efficacy study of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is finally out. After six months of monitoring over 45,000 patients, the study found that there were 15 deaths in the vaccine group and 14 deaths in the unvaccinated placebo group.
In other words, more vaccinated people died from the virus than the unvaccinated. According to the study, there were no deaths among 12‒15-year-old participants. The study not only demonstrates the lack of efficacy in the most important group but also highlights the extremely low fatality rate of Covid-19 in most of the 45,000 participants.

And before the Vaccine Nazis jump on the claim that there were more vaccinated participants than unvaccinated, there were 21,926 vaccinated and 21,921 unvaccinated participants. That means the chance of dying is 1 in 1,462 for the vaccinated and 1 in 1,565 for the unvaccinated.

The Pfizer vaccine doesn't even reduce the risk of death, which is the last thing the Vaccine Nazis are still trying to claim it does.

Of course, this was before ADE and the Delta variant were combining to endanger the vaccinated, so "less than nothing" is the current best case scenario for the vaccines.

Bindery Campaign Update 6

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 12:30:00 +0000

Days Left: 22

Status: 55.6 percent of goal.

The Iliad: 180/500

The Odyssey: 176/500

The previous update inspired a Homer-related question. But to me, the real hero of The Iliad has always been entirely obvious.

Which Iliad character would you want to be?

Hector.

Man. You are a weird one. As a Greek I ask this question of northwestern brothers. Almost all answer Achilles. Only The Golden One answered a very Greek answer "Achilles who then turns into Odysseas". So Hector huh? You sympathise with the Trojans?

Achilles was a whiny little Special Boy bitch who got his best friend killed for nothing, required divine treachery to win his famous duel, and failed to respect even the most valorous. Hector was a man and a true hero, who gave his life for his family and his nation.

“Assuredly to me also are all these things a subject of anxiety, dear wife, but I am exceedingly ashamed of the Trojans and the long-robed Trojan dames, if I, like a dastard, aloof, should avoid the battle: nor does my mind incline me thus, for I have learned to be always brave, and to fight in the foremost among the Trojans, seeking to gain both my father’s great glory and mine own.... Jove, and ye other gods, grant that this my son also may become, even as I am, distinguished amongst the Trojans, so powerful in might, and bravely to rule over Ilium. And may some one hereafter say, returning from the fight, ‘He indeed is much braver than his sire.’ And let him bear away the bloody spoils, having slain the foe, and let his mother rejoice in her soul.”

Homer provides us with an object socio-sexual lesson in The Iliad, as he beautifully demonstrates the difference between the situational Alpha, (who in this case is at heart a supercharged Gamma) and the genuine Alpha. He also shows us the sort of problems that inevitably arise when Gammas achieve power.

One doctor's perspective

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000

This is from a comment posted at Naked Capitalism by a doctor who is a regular commenter there:

We continue to have quite a bit of infection in the community. In my own practice, I am usually seeing 5-15 cases a day of COVID. The majority of these cases are vaccinated breakthroughs. There have been 2 whole days this week where the entire day were all vaccinated breakthroughs. Please note this is the outpatient side. Despite Dr. Walensky's reassurance to Americans that these are very rare, this has not been my experience at all. These breakthroughs continue to happen in clusters. While the unvaccinated positives tend to be more isolated and far less likely to spread and sicken contacts. The clusters are almost always vaccinated as well. I have no explanation for this. It is my feeling the virus is trying to tell us something. This seems to be consistent with constant news reports of cluster events among the vaccinated all over the country.
The unvaccinated positives are likely underrepresented in my office sample. They are likely younger. They are likely to have no insurance or high copays so very hesitant to get tested. They are likely to get fired if they miss a day of work so they just do not want to know if they are positive. Furthermore, it seems that every effort has been made to make it very difficult for anyone to get tested. Why bother?
As far as the hospital it remains about 50/50 vaccinated/unvaccinated. The percentage of vaccinated patients seems to be slowly creeping up daily. I am hearing from my friends all over the country that the same is true. You no longer hear about 1% vaccinated anymore in the hospital. A slow but surely increasing prevalence of the vaccinated in the hospitals. The vaccinated inpatients tend to be older and vaccinated at the beginning in DEC or JAN. The unvaccinated are younger usually 40-60 almost always with obesity or diabetes. Unlike the last wave, the majority of these patients are in and out in a day or two. I am not saying there are not sick people there are. Just not nearly as many as before. This too is confirmed by my friends. The critically ill are few but are almost entirely made up of the unvaccinated. We have had but 2 vaccinated in the ICU this whole time. The stories you are hearing of crashed hospitals in the big cities are happening because large numbers of non-critical patients are being admitted and discharged with continued large numbers coming into the ER. The other factor is staffing. Nurses have become depressed and are leaving in droves. And the ancillary staff in many places has been decimated by employees leaving because of the vaccine mandates. There is more at work than patient numbers by the panic porn that is all over the MSM.
The vaccines are clearly not working as promised. Large numbers of vaccinated patients are getting sick. I remember when I did the guest post back in December about the Pfizer trials. I was and am gravely concerned about the medical establishment in the guise of the Editors of NEJM referring to these miraculous vaccines, perfect in every way, as a triumph. There are lots of things in medicine the past decades that are indeed miracles. But calling something a triumph before a shot was in the first arm betrayed to me a certain level of hubris and I knew in my heart at that very moment that Nemesis, Hubriss best friend, would soon be making a visit....
These vaccinated patients that are sick are not very happy at all. Many of them are profoundly angry. The lies and misrepresentations are very soon going to start catching up with our leaders. And what I never dreamed would happen has begun to happen this week close to half of my positive COVID patients in an unsolicited manner are demanding to be placed on alternative therapy such as ivermectin. In a very angry manner.
I have no problem using this drug. I used it quite a bit in the first big crash in the fall and winter and started using it again about 6 weeks ago. Using the scientific method as I was so carefully trained to do decades ago, and with the limited tools I have, I have been able to make some observations.
Once a patient, vaccinated or not, becomes positive for COVID in my practice, my nurses or myself call them once in the AM and once in the PM. There is a form we fill out on each of these calls to describe their clinical condition with parameters fever, congestion, shortness of breath, coughing, pulse ox, etc. When the patients have cleared every single one, we quit calling them. We usually have between 15-20 active cases this past few weeks daily. A pattern became very obvious very quickly in this process and I have distilled it with 2 raw numbers. The Ivermectin patients are cleared of symptoms (N of 44) in average of 2.4 days. The Non-Ivermectin patients (N of 19) are cleared of symptoms after 5.7 days. Furthermore, on day 5 of the illness, we always have the patients go and get tested again. The Ivermectin patients have literally a 100% negative rate by Day 5. The non-Ivermectin patients have a 58% clearance rate by Day 5.
I want to make one thing very clear. This is the scientific method. These numbers are consistent with the overall signal that all kinds of studies are showing with this drug. However, I am just one clinician in one office. Nothing dispositive can be said or done with these numbers.
However, it is an indication of yet another complete fail on the part of our medical leaders. These signals have now been out there for about a year. It is at this point, a national embarrassment that nothing has been done to fully evaluate this drug. I will say again, our leaders are not practicing medicine, they are practicing business.

Of course the vaccinated are angry. They thought they were going to be protected from this, they were assured that the vaccines were "safe and effective". But we now know that Pfizer knew from the very beginning that there was zero evidence that the vaccines were either safe or effective.

Will the sheep grow fangs and exact retribution or will they die en masse? Only time will tell.

There is ZERO evidence of vaccine safety, part II

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:52:00 +0000

Pfizer's own purchase contracts prove that there is no knowledge of the long-term safety or the long term effectiveness of its Covid vaccine:

The purchaser of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine must also acknowledge two facts that have largely been brushed under the rug: Both their efficacy and risks are unknown. According to section 5.5 of the contract:
“Purchaser acknowledges that the Vaccine and materials related to the Vaccine, and their components and constituent materials are being rapidly developed due to the emergency circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be studied after provision of the Vaccine to Purchaser under this Agreement.
“Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known.”

This goes WAY beyond the simple legal immunity that ordinary vaccine manufacturers enjoy in the United States. You'd have to be literally insane or entirely ignorant to permit anyone to put this hellbrew in your body.

Sunday PM Arktoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 20:12:00 +0000

GUN GHOUL Episode 15: I'll Be Killing You Tonight

If only he had been vaccinated

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 18:07:00 +0000

The daily Vaccine Nazi sob story is today focused on reasonable people who just want to wait for more scientific data instead of the usual anti-vaxxers:

Removal firm boss Brian Lynch, 46, said he was not an anti-vaxxer, but wanted more long-term scientific data before getting the jab.
He was admitted to Royal Blackburn Hospital on July 7 and spent weeks in intensive care, during which he vowed to friends he would get the vaccine if he recovered.
In a Facebook post from his ICU bed Mr Lynch said he felt 'the most frightened he had ever been' and admitted he 'thought it was the vulnerable and the elderly who got hospitalised'.
But Mr Lynch, of Blackburn, Lancashire, was later placed in a medically-induced coma and died with his family and wife Gina by his side on July 31.
Mr Lynch's death is the latest in a series of vaccine sceptics and anti-vaxxers who have died after refusing to receive the jab this year.

The lesson: Don't wait for the long-term scientific data! Get fully vaccinated now and you won't... um, okay, well, wait a minute....

Sheriff Lee D. Vance died at his Jackson home on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19.
AMR responded to a medical emergency at Sherriff Vance’s home on Wednesday morning, according to a declaration issued by the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office. When the medical response team arrived, Vance did not respond and was pronounced dead.
Hinds County Sheriff Captain Tyree Jones confirmed the news to WLBT-TV this week. On August 4, the department Noted that Vance died of natural causes due to COVID-19, according to coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart. His death will be labeled as a “COVID-related death.”

The sheriff was fully vaccinated and did not suffer an adverse effect, but despite his vaccinations and his age, contracted a lethal case of Covid-19. This appears to be ADE-in-action.

Vaxx more dangerous than not being vaxxed

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:58:00 +0000

Scientists have known since December 2020 that the vaccines not only do not protect against the transmission of Covid-19 or reduce the severity of it, but actually make the vaccine recipients subject to more serious cases of the disease.

Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID‐19 vaccines worsening clinical disease

COVID‐19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID‐19 disease via antibody‐dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID‐19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.
Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications
The specific and significant COVID‐19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent.

This is exactly what is happening now and explains why so many incidents of the spread of the disease being reported among completely vaccinated populations. Covid-19 is increasingly becoming a disease of the vaccinated due to Antibody-Dependent Enhancement.

You can't escape the experiment, so be the control group.

Your Vaccine Nazi friends and family may think they were sufficiently informed to consent to be vaccinated. They were not.

CONCLUSION
Given the strong evidence that ADE is a non‐theoretical and compelling risk for COVID‐19 vaccines and the “laundry list” nature of informed consents, disclosure of the specific risk of worsened COVID‐19 disease from vaccination calls for a specific, separate, informed consent form and demonstration of patient comprehension in order to meet medical ethics standards. The informed consent process for ongoing COVID‐19 vaccine trials does not appear to meet this standard.

Sunday AM Arktoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 13:45:00 +0000

SEASONS Episode 15: Home

ECONCOMICS Episode 7 Secular Stagnation

GO MONSTER GO! Episode 11: A Kick in the...

CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: COMEDY Episode 14: Homework Horrors

Bindery Campaign update 5

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 12:33:00 +0000

Days Left: 23

Status: 50.3 percent of goal.

The Iliad: 170/500

The Odyssey: 165/500

First, thanks very much to everyone who has already backed this campaign and is making the next big step possible. Second, as requested, we will add two more ways to support the campaign next week, at more affordable $50 and $150 levels. Third, I will remind you that I am neither customer nor technical support and all attempts to pursue either through this blog or on the Darkstream will be deleted and ignored.

I understand that many organizations operate under the principle that "the customer is always right". We absolutely do not. To the contrary, we operate under the principle that could be described as "the customer is probably retarded". This is not to say we do not appreciate, respect, or hold in the highest regard everyone who supports our projects and makes them possible, but the negative baseline is necessary if we are to successfully anticipate even a small fraction of the customer-related problems that inevitably arise over time. Remember, MPAI.

For example, there is literally nothing we can do about a customer spamming our emails besides telling people - usually to no avail - to check their Social folders and whitelist our URLs. There is nothing we can do about a customer not giving us a shipping address, or moving without telling us that his address has changed. We cannot accept payment from an expired credit card. We cannot force anyone to read the emails that we send them. We are legally barred from contacting customers who intentionally remove themselves from our mailing list. (Believe it or not, one or two people do this almost every time we send out a mass email. Almost invariably, they later complain that we're not keeping them informed.) These are the quotidian realities we face.

Moreover, until the bindery becomes operational, our ability to ensure that everyone gets their books in a reasonable timeframe is limited because we do not ship them to anyone. We literally never see them at all, and while our two primary partners have the best of intentions, both of them tend to fall short of the level of service that we consider to be acceptable. That is one of the primary reasons we are creating the bindery! In order to provide the level of service we wish to provide you, we have to control the entire process. And right now, we don't, and unfortunately, neither of our partners are anywhere close to the Amazon level of operational performance and efficiency.

Now this doesn't mean we aren't 100-percent committed to ensuring that every single supporter and book buyer gets his books eventually, one way or another. For example, to address those who haven't received the Junior Classics 1-3 hardcovers, the reason we aren't losing any sleep about sorting out your problem right away is because you know we are going to be sending you books 4-6 this summer, and given our limited influence over the very large printing and distribution company that ships them, it is more effective to sort out each shipping problem with them once rather than addressing it multiple times. Trust us, we've been working with them for years, we know what works and what flat-out doesn't.

As for what is taking so long to produce the Junior Classics, in addition to the editorial and layout processes, we are going through literally thousands of images, selecting hundreds of them, then carefully checking to make sure that they all work together aesthetically as well as with the related stories they illustrate. This takes time. This takes a LOT of time. Sure, we could have just taken the Easton approach, scanned the 1918 editions, and shipped all 10 volumes together six months ago, but that's not what we do.

I have the lovely two-volume Easton Press edition of The Tale of Genji. It is the exact same interior as my little octavo edition of the Waley translation I used in my Japanese literature course in college, scanned and blown up to royal octavo. And by "exact same", I mean every typo and ink blot is perfectly replicated.

And I don't believe that's what our readers want. While we will use existing layouts for certain books in which the layouts cannot reasonably be improved - such as the Landmark history series, just to name one example for no particular reason at all - our standard modus operandi is to create new and unique layouts for each book in the Library.

I understand that some people would prefer that we provide gold-plated customer service. Since that's not what we do at present, it would probably be better for such individuals to not do direct business with us, wait until the regular products are available through the mainstream channels, and pay the full retail price for them then. But it might be useful to reflect upon why so many of our customers are not meremly happy, but delighted with our products despite our horrific, bordering-on-nonexistent customer service.

We don't spam, we don't market (yet), we don't even have an active dedicated Internet site at this point in time. All we do is make the highest-quality books that you can buy while systematically addressing one operational problem at a time. I very much hope that we can eventually reach the point where our customer service is as good as our interior layouts, but that is going to take at least two years, because it cannot be the priority at present. It will improve, just like the UATV technology is improving, but the process is intrinsically a gradual one that can be maddening at times.

Think about it. Are you really going to be happy with a gold-plated concierge service that calls you twice a day to inform you that your books are still not ready and you will not receive them today, tomorrow, or next week?

There is ZERO evidence of vaxx safety

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 09:55:00 +0000

The control group was vaccinated as soon as emergency authorization was granted

Mott was one of about 650 volunteers who took the experimental Moderna vaccine at a company called Johnson County Clinical Trials in Lenexa, Kan. Dr. Carlos Fierro, who runs the study there, says every participant was called back after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the vaccine.
"During that visit we discussed the options, which included staying in the study without the vaccine," he says, "and amazingly there were people — a couple of people — who chose that."
He suspects those individuals got spooked by rumors about the vaccine. But everybody else who had the placebo shot went ahead and got the actual vaccine. So now Fierro has essentially no comparison group left for the ongoing study.
"It's a loss from a scientific standpoint, but given the circumstances I think it's the right thing to do," he says.

Be the control group. But don't do it for yourself, or because you're skeptical of an experimental product from a corporation granted legal immunity, or because you are concerned about the adverse effects of the vaxxes.

Do it for science.

Pfizer lied, people died

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 17:12:00 +0000

The Vaccine Nazis are now running around saying that the vaccines aren't supposed to prevent infection, just serious illness and death. That is a blatant and easily disproven lie:

REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE CONFIRMS HIGH EFFECTIVENESS OF PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE AND PROFOUND PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT OF VACCINATION ONE YEAR AFTER PANDEMIC DECLARED
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 06:45am
Dramatically lower COVID-19 disease incidence rates observed in individuals fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, based on real-world data gathered by the Israel Ministry of Health
Data suggest Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine prevents asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection
Latest data analysis finds unvaccinated individuals were 44 times more likely to develop symptomatic COVID-19 and 29 times more likely to die from COVID-19
Findings represent the most comprehensive real-world evidence to date demonstrating the effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine

Read it again: "Data suggest Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine prevents asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection"

And now the Vaccine Nazis are not only saying it isn't preventing infections, they're falsely claiming it isn't even supposed to do so.

Bindery Campaign update 4

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 12:23:00 +0000

Days Left: 24

Status: 45.5 percent of goal.

The Iliad: 158/500

The Odyssey: 153/500

No vaccine regrets

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000

It's informative to see how the mainstream media avoids reporting on this sort of story. I suppose it's hard to find the space with all the fake vaccine regret sob stories they're running every day.

1st Vaccine done, absolutely zero side affects. Looking forward to 2nd one.
- Michael Mitchell, February 22, 2021

2nd vaccination done, zero after affect (as yet). Vaccine certificate issued.
- Michael Mitchell, March 20, 2021

Well that's my third jab today. Proud to be part of this experiment to save lives.
- Michael Mitchell, July 16, 2021

Michael Mitchell was found dead in a marina cabin near his house boat on July 22, 2021.

Had a doctor been there, no doubt his last words would have been "vaccines are safe and effective."

Saturday AM Arktoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 09:43:00 +0000

CLASSIC BEN GARRISON Episode 5: Lockstep Ron Paul

QUANTUM MORTIS Episode 14: Pacifists of the Galaxy, Unite!

We've got a new independent joining Arktoons on Monday. I think you're going to like this one....

Pedo senator in Arizona

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 09:26:00 +0000

There is literally zero chance that he's the only one.

Arizona State Senator, Tony Navarrete, an openly gay Democrat and founding member of Arizona’s LGBTQ Caucus, has been arrested for child molestation. Phoenix Police confirm that Navarrete, widely considered a “rising star” within the Democrat Party, faces multiple counts of sexual conduct with a minor, among other charges.
While few details surrounding the charges and arrest have been made immediately available, local media has confirmed with Phoenix Police that Democrat State Senator Tony Navarrete “was arrested on Thursday, Aug. 5, and charged with multiple counts of sexual conduct with a minor among other charges.”
In the immediate aftermath of Senator Navarrete’s arrest for child molestation, his Senate Democrat colleagues had little to say, releasing a statement saying the caucus was aware of the arrest but had no comment on the situation. “We are aware one of our members has been arrested and are awaiting further details and for law enforcement to do its job. We will not have further comment at this time,” Senate Democrats said in a statement.

This may have profound implications for the Arizona vote audit. Note that Navarrete is "an openly gay Democrat and founding member of Arizona’s LGBTQ Caucus." Quelle surprise....

Not all gays are pedos, but a sufficiently significant percentage of them are to render it child abuse to permit them around children in any capacity. The fact that not every lion will devour a child doesn't mean it isn't child abuse to permit a child to walk into a cage occupied by a lion.

National File has now learned that in 2019, Navarrete was deeply involved in the educational sector, and has worked with children, young teens, and has even “worked closely” with the Arizona Department of Child Safety.

Predators go where the prey is. Remember, Navarrete wasn't a "rising star" despite being a pedo. He was a rising star because he is a pedo.

Friday PM Arktoons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +0000

SILENZIOSA Episode 8: As Night Descends