Donald Trump has imposed a communications blackout across America’s federal health agencies, including the CDC, FDA, HHS, and NIH.
These agencies have been instructed to halt all external communications, such as publishing scientific reports, updating websites, and issuing health advisories.
The directive was issued suddenly and without prior notice.
My comment: bye-bye Bird Flu panic.
From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.
In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.
Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.
The Golden Transcendence Ep. 04: Diomedes
Trump has apparently disbanded the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The website is down.
https://www.bradyunited.org/press/white-house-office-gun-violence-prevention-reported-closure
Rejoice.
Buy guns and ammo. Arm yourself, learn gun safety, and spend time at the range, you and your young sons. Hurrah for Guns and Bibles! Defend the nation from the Dems and from the Demons.
AND THERE IS MORE
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Raided her home, shot at her man, called her son retarded.
Vendetta is needed.
Maybe I am actually tired of winning. It is too much. I cannot keep track of all the winning, much less make a trenchant comment on it.
I will leave this list here:
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This is not my field of expertise, so my amateur opinion is that of an amateur. Nonetheless, there are conditions and limitations to the Pardon power as expressed in the US Constitution.
The second article of the Constitution of the United States, section two, contains this provision, namely: “The President shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”
However, the case law states “The language used in the Constitution as to the power of pardoning must be construed by the exercise of that power in England prior to the Revolution, and in the states prior to the adoption of the Constitution.”
And no exercise of this power, in America since the revolution nor in England before it, allowed for pardons and commutations of speculative crimes for which there is no conviction, no sentence.
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Trump just signed several Executive orders onstage after his inaugural parade:
UPDATED LATER:
President Trump has been officially sworn in. There was, as of the time of this writing, no last minute shenanigans, no assassins.
Our long national nightmare is ended. The new golden age has begun.
And we are going to Mars.
I will post later today, once news of any first day executive orders or other actions is known.
We continue reviewing all the Disney feature-length animations in chronological order. We are now in the years of the Disney Renaissance, when the original skill and genius of the company was revived by the Broadway musical inspiration of Howard Ashman. By this time, he had passed away, and his loss is noticeable.
ALADDIN (1992) is one of Disney’s finest accomplishments, equal to the best animation ever put to film.
And in another story, Larry Correia dedicated his latest book to George RR Martin with a tongue in cheek quip, and social media headploded on him. He fisks one of the several libels against him here:
https://monsterhunternation.com/2025/01/14/fisking-msns-goofy-take-on-my-book-dedication-to-george-rr-martin/
The words below are his:
I haven’t done a Fisking in a while! But to be fair I haven’t infuriated the internet this much in several months. My crime? I dedicated the sixth and final book (which comes out February) of my epic fantasy series to George RR Martin.
The original article will be in italics and my responses will be in bold.
Fantasy author taunts Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin in his new book
Story by Dan Selcke
• 23h • 3 min read
Yeah, 3 minutes to read, 10 minutes for me to point out all the bullshit in it.
George R.R. Martin is the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, which was adapted for TV as Game of Thrones.
Which made George one of the wealthiest and most famous writers in human history, but we’ll get back to that part.
Only the producers behind Game of Thrones had to finish the story before Martin finished the source material; he released the last book in his series, A Dance With Dragons, way back in 2011. Fans have been waiting for the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, for over a decade at this point.
That’s a nice way of saying that babies who were born when the last book came out are now learning to drive.
It continues in like vein. On a personal note, I was alarmed and disappointed to see repeated by the MSM libels and lies about Sad Puppies long since exploded, nonchalantly recited there. Falsehoods never die.
Please read the whole thing here.
From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.
In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.
Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.
The Golden Transcendence Ep. 03: Thought Contamination
This is a revision of a column from 2011, updated to the current decade.
At one time this link from from the ironically named Hookingupsmart.com led to an article entitled “Why Do Feminists Find Abstinence Intolerable.” The original seems to be missing, but here is a quote:
Rachel Kramer Bussel, a sex writer and leader in the sex-positive movement, believes that casual sex is “under attack”:
“There’s a world of difference between being branded a sex object and choosing to be one…I may like to get spanked until I scream, but I still deserve to be treated as an intelligent human being… Feminists are just like any other women, and it’d be a shame for us to hold back in a misguided attempt to live up to the legacies of Susan B. Anthony and Gloria Steinem.”
The article goes on to list other “sex positive” feminist kinks that the postrational postmodern postchristian ladies demand be treated as liberating choices for women: Rape fantasies, BDSM, Swinging, Polyamory, Fisting, Bukkake, Prostitution and all forms of Porn. (It deeply saddens me that the internet has allowed me to know what all these terms mean, who had no such Hollywoodian knowledge in my youth.)
The article is from 2011. In 2025, social media is currently showing boasts by an internet harlot that she has coupled with a record breaking number of men in record time, outperforming even Empress Messalina at her most depraved.
Sex-positivity is newspeak for harlotry. We live in an era when prostitution, adultery, sluttish behavior is lauded, and chastity condemned. Ironically, this is done in the name of freedom.
The modern notion of freedom is an assertion of nothingness. Freedom is the lack of impediment to the willpower.
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From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.
In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.
Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.
The Golden Transcendence Ep. 02: The Memory Casket
From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.
In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumph of abundance, liberty, and splendor.
But hidden by the protocols of masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dead star Cygnus X1, site of mankind’s sole extrasolar colony, which, falling silent in aeons past, long thought dead, is called the Silent Oecumene.
Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them, as the last of the masquerade comes to an end. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction ere the end.
The Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system, natural and artificial, into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.
The Golden Transcendence Ep. 01: The Ship
We are reviewing all the feature-length Disney animated films in order. We have now reached the pinnacle, the best film of the Disney Renaissance, the best film of Disney’s portfolio, the best animated film of any animator, the best film ever filmed whether live action or animated.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) was produced by Howard Ashman, and received lauds and awards it would be tedious to recite, but which were well deserved.
Naturally, I can make no pretense of objectivity when reviewing my favorite film: I can only hope to list the virtues that I imagine even those not infatuated by this film in fairness must admit exist.
For I saw this film in the theater when I was a young newlywed, and had no money for tickets, because I myself was a hulky hairy beast who had just been turned into a handsome prince by the first kiss of my beloved beauty, and every element of this film spoke to some part of my life or another. So it would be an understatement to say I recommend it.
