My boys repeat! My hometown shines again, the City of Night! Thankis, guys.

The magazine claimed that men today are better at being women than women are, which is biologically absurd, in spite of how "woman" is defined by wokeness, let alone "identity." "Woke," as any rational person knows, is dead, and it always was linguistically rooted in the past tense, anyway. As for "identity,"at least by gender, which ought to be, and always has been a simple matter, that's the biological purpose of this post.

Trans claims that identity choice [a head trip] can change the gender, but biology claims that gender is not in the brain, as a matter of choice, but in the gonads [ovaries or testes], and not even by a vagina or a penis, which is, admittedly, the means by which a newborn is virtually always declared female or male by the ObGyn when birthing a child. The biological fact is, gender is defined by the 23rd chromosome, which, in 99.99999997% of humanity, is XX or XY [female or male] and that is within every single one of our 20 - 30T cells of the body in the nucleus on the DNA double-helix, and in order to "identify" as the opposing sex to what the cells all declare, one must have each cell surgically altered, and not merely by verbal or written declaration of preferred pronoun use. This is science of generations of knowledge, and still is. Note that I said 99.99...% and not 100%. That is because 0.00000003% of us worldwide [about 500 people, total, or <3 people per country - that's how rare this condition truly is] have variations of XX or XY, but even they, even if they have both a vagina and a penis, have only ovaries or testes, one set to a customer, and that is not changed by whim of declared "identity." And the genetics identity is not going to be changed by any biological treatment. One can refer to the Human Genome Project for the most modern scientific background on the subject, and that is a generation ago when that knowledge was declared. Where have y'all been, including Glamour Mag?

The Democrat Senator mud-sticking of demanding healthcare for illegal aliens in-country [which is exactly illegal, all by itself, regardless of other crimes that may be committed by them] as well as all other demands for added government expenditure that is not currently funded, and for which there are no justifications for funding according to the limitations of legislation of government spending by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution is going to lead to a fatal airliner crash before they stop the nonsense of Shoofly's shutdown.

Go.

I invite your commentary, for and against. I have my own opinion on the matter; but, not yet willing to reveal where I hold opinion.

Simple: they can't dance; particularly the Nun. No rhythm. None.

Besides, it's not costing them a penny.

Besides, a few presidents of the past have remodeled the "People's" House; some extensively at our expense.

And let's recall, this president is not taking a salary, unlike the boastesses, and actually does work in the White House, unlike his predecessor.

The View has reached its horizon and needs its sundown..

Then you have passed over and render as irrelevant Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, to wit:

"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;"

By precedent, this includes any other law enforcement detail, including ICE.

Ob'a has said that he envisions his original post-presidency objective will suddenly have fruition after more than ten years of delay: to train the new generation of [Democrat] leaders. I imagine and observe that Oba'a sees no hope in his current generation, let alone anyone older, and not yet being an old man, himself.

His '28 choice is Gavin Newsom, but he has a new wrinkle for the firebrand of sunny, but burning California.

Newsom will run as a trans, thereby needing no other candidate for a vice president. After all, human identity is now an accepted Democrat ideal of multiple genders, and multiple persons, changeable daily. The Founders never anticipated constitutionally that both offices might be fulfilled in the same person, but, here we are, or at least, here is where the radical left thinks we are. I suppose one can also be a citizen today, a non- tomorrow, and maybe even a jackass the day after. HeeHaw.

Democrats have not thought this protest through. What are you waiting for? Capitulation that we elected a king? Absurd.

A casual side note: Democrats in Congress complain that the President will not sit down with them to negotiate legislation. By the way, the Constitution says Congress legislates, not the President. A king might do it, but we son't have one, do we, unless it's Shoofly with a wish-balloon-inflated ego.

By the way, that's not a typo in the title; it's all the current Dimocrats argue for: givernment, and all that implies.

Much has been claimed of the intellect of A.I., but I ran across the following quote when researching a matter involving the recent change by Google to add “✦ AI Overview” rather than the older version, which offered the matching “hits” based directly on the search string words offered by the user and offering direct URL's fort citation. What's curious about this change is that most of the AI suggestions do not offer a source by URL, which is typically an important matter for proper citation. I personally refuse to offer a source as "https://A.I." Here is the reference quote referred to above;

“No matter how you slice it, the expert consensus is that artificial intelligence does not possess consciousness. AI has no sense of time, it doesn’t experience hunger, it has no need to rest or reproduce. While it can generate words that suggest it is experiencing feelings like sadness or joy, it doesn’t actually feel anything. And any preferences or personality traits it appears to have were intentionally trained into it by its human developers“

https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-consciousness#:~:text=For now, though, most researchers,ReadingWhat Is AI Sentience?

Google has failed to satisfy proper sourcing, as if A.I. is always error-free when I know, personally, it is not.

Here's a new self-portrait just completed, experimenting with hard-edge shading.

Con tress was the legislative body responsible for keeping things like government running, not the President.

Seems today, the president is accused of being in charge of keeping government open, and Congess has abdicated its legislative power. So, who needs them, anyway if they've abdicated? That will save a lot on budget: 535 pole, salaries, plus all their individual staffs. Thank you, Shoofly and Jeffries.

just completed artwork I've been working on for about a month, depicting the ancients Egyptian funerary rite called "Weighing of the Heart," which is a trial of sort for the spirit of the dead to gain eternal life with the gods for living an unsullied life. The final judgment is the weighing of the deceased;s heart against a feather. The weighing is overseen by the god, Horus [the jackel] and recorded by the god, Thoth [the ibis].

Re: debate: Who is the funniest South park character?

I have tried to vote on this debate. When I try to place my vote, I receive immediate notice that I have already voted on the debate, yet the debate still reflects 0 votes.

I have exited the debate, re-entered, and tried to vote again, having the same result.

Please try to fix quickly; the debate is 3 days for end of voting.

“Race is a social construct, scientists argue. Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out. ‘[Racial constructs] is a concept we think is too crude to provide useful information… that has social meaning that interferes in the scientific understanding of human genetic diversity…’ says Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University… What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe, for example, there is not a single absolute genetic difference, meaning no single variant where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one, even when recent migration is disregarded.”

From Scientific American, 2/5/2016

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/

Is there more for God to reveal to us not yet revealed to us in any holy writ we currently possess? Of just the Holy Bible, there is statement in Revelation:

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of prophecy of this book: if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” [Holy Bible [KJV] Revelation 22: 18, 19 

To what “book” did John refer? Was he aware, when writing his “book,” Revelation, that it would, one day, not stand alone, but would be added to 65 other books to comprise a book whose title, Holy Bible, was equally unknown to John? Yes, he did not know it. His reference forbidding addition to the book was to his book, only; Revelation, and not the entire canonized volume, the Holy Bible.

We cannot take it upon ourselves to limit what God will reveal to us in the past, at present, or to come. We do not yet possess all that God will reveal to us, and he will do so on his schedule, whatever that is, and not ours.

Today, the “separation of church and state” is interpreted as forbidding mention of God in pubic schools, or conducting prayer, even by one's self in silence, when the Everson case [1947’s Everson v. Board of Education] found"

 “…that although the United States government cannot promote religion, it also cannot be religion’s adversary.”

"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"

So, how do justice, tranquility, common defense, general welfare, and the blessings of liberty achieve "a more perfect union?"

What's it gong to be, Democrats? Do you have a more reasoned response to a present, for an utterly lacking crime response other than a %#$#^ ban?

How about something original? There's nothing about woke that is.

Euclidean geometry [EG] proposes a circle to be a plane; i.e., of zero thickness, since the same geometry also says of a point that it is of no dimension, i.e., of zero length or width. That geometry also declares three separate conditional extensions of a "line" as a general construct. An EG line extends straight tor infinity in two directions of length from an assumed center point. A "ray" has a beginning at a point and extends in a single direction to infinity. A "segment" os a portion of eider a line or a ray, limited in length by being of defined length of some measurement standard.

By EG, a radius does not exist unless a fixed point of a ray extends in any direction, and is then rotated by any defined number of degrees of less than 360º, creating an arc.

If the arc is extended the full 360º, a circle is created.

So, the question becomes: can the radius extend from the beginning center point to infinity, thus creating an arc of any number of degrees for 1 to 360º, thus, at the max number of degrees, an infinite circle?

Anyone?

Cli-Sci [my moniker for Climate "Science"] came late in the game to class, only some 200 years ago, when the seniors in class have been here for thousands of years. What makes Cli=Sci [I put "sciemce' in quotes for a reason I'll shortly explain] think it ranks among the senior class?

I asked some questions a while ago that were never answered. I'll ask again. The criticality is simply this: science depends on careful, accurate, repeatable data collection. Anybody disagree with that?

Fine, let's proceed: Data depends on measurement, and that depends on the right tools for the job. The care and keeping of those tools is the critical matter here, and the subject of my questions. They are;

How many measurement stations are there? 

Are they all using the same measurement equipment for the same measurement need? 

Is the equipment used the optimum equipment for the measurements required? 

Is all measurement equipment used of an accuracy that is 10 times the required tolerance specified to assure data is valid within specified tolerances? 

How accurate and timely are all their calibrations performed and recorded on all specified measurement equipment [including just a straight edge ruler]? 

Are those who conduct the measurements all properly trained in the function of the measurement equipment used?

Are all who perform calibration of measurement equipment also adequately trained as above?  

Is the training verified as effective with follow up by the trainers? 

Do the measurement operators all use the same measurement process technique?

Unless all these questions can be answered correctly and accurately, the data collected is garbage, and I don't believe Cli-Sci is yet up to the task, for instance, of just measurement of sea level temperature around the world ay multiple stations, let alone any other more complicated measurement.

We consider that, as humans, we have advantage over all the creatures of Earth, and that it is we who must pull them along ion the long ordeal of Earth life to achieve mastery at some point in our distant future.

I think the Native Americans had the right idea about having"spirit guides" to help human growth, because those other creatures live the full measure of their creatrin, while we... well, we stumble on the "full-measure" stuff.

yeah, holding me in his hand. He wears a hat when he's working, a Humphry Bogart style fedora.

Do you drive your world by free will, or is the universe in charge by determinism?

Well, one thing's for sure, Now that I've published this nonsense, the bloody title in the post set-up is too #@%#$#$@#% small to read for 76-year-old eyes!! Come on!

Wondering if Debate Conduct, etc, rules will be posted soon, even if they are dulicatres of DebateArt rules in the alpha mode. Specifically wondering if debate round sourcing list can continue to be posted in Comments within a given debate if character count is in danger of being exceeded by arguments?

My bride, at our first meeting in 1971, drawn in Adobe Illustrator from photo] 55 years ago,

married two years later. Took me a while of convincing, even though, at the time, I happened

to be driving her favorite car, a yellow volkswagen bug with black convertible top. Still is her

favorite, as it turns out, but I never replaced it, and she was unimpressed with the red Porsche

I bought for our 10th anniversary.

God in heaven! We've absolutely lost our minds, thinking Government is suppsed to sing us lullabies to sleep every night?

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Government's job is basically two-fold;

1. Protect us from invasion from without.
2. Protect us from invasion from within.

Article !, Section 8 lists 18 things government should legislate to accomplish nothing more than those two objectives. Congress runs amok doing just about everything else, but. But then, while they all swear to uphold the Constitution, damn few of them have ever read it! They have notions about what it is, but those notions are what's on Main Street's mom & pop's.

Period, full stop.

Reluctant Fed Chair Powell admits to seeing the light shining ointhe darkness of Democrat self-serving election autopsy. Self-serving because they think they can sing the blues away, but they're off key, cannot encourgage more voices than a quartet, if that, and, of course, blame anyone but themselves fort the 24 election loss. That's a posts mortem. that, like woke, was dead, is dead, and will now remain dead.

Maybe they can buy fake Dracula teeth and try to scare us again. Nope.

Powel has seen the light of Tump's four-star plan: tax cuts, deregulation, energy dominance, and fair trade. The combination may spell threat of tarries, because that, most of all, the toothy Democrats claimed would be our demise. My gold and sliver investments are doing just fine, thanks. Funny thing, these four stars were once a mantra sung but none other than JFK. Remember him, Democrats? You should. You're probably to blame for shooting him, if all the the hidden games were released to hate public. Face it, your ilk [far-left Dems] in the 60s [and was there] did not like him. At all. Just like Trump. History repeats, we learn nothing. Santayana called that "among savages, infancy is perpetual."

According to MI5 [Great Britain's Secret Service] Hitler and Eva Braun's last day alive in the Berlin bunker they occupied for a few weeks before both committed suicide was low key, with Hitler makings no public announcements. He announced to a secretary that he preferred death to be taken alive. There were, at the time, 2.5M Russian soldiers in Berlin, fighting tor take the city. Just before death, the two married in the map room of the bunker, hada brief party and secluded themselves to die. They may not have even consumated the marriage. Therefore, what legit comparison to Trump?

Today, I am celebrating Bauhaus, the minimalist "less-is-more" architectural design of Germany, and adherent designer, Marcel Brewer [a Hungarian], who 100 years ago, designed the "Wassily chair" pictured below. I have 4 of these chairs arranged in my home office. While appearing uncomfortable, people love sitting in this chair, mainly because of the rugged strength of the chair while offering flexible leather comfort.