Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Could Kamala Explain the Difference between True and Magnetic North?

I doubt it. She thinks 'the cloud' in cyberspeak refers to a physical object in the sky. Remember that howler?

Why are the Dems so dumb? They lack both a message and messenger. The think they failed to 'get their message across.' But they had no message to get across, and no one to get it across.  Did you see the unedited Sixty Minutes video?  Kamala the Joyous  could not explain why she wanted to be president.  She is perhaps fit to be a kindergarten teacher, but not POTUS.  Is that not blindingly evident? And are you not an emotion-driven fool if you let your TDS impel you to embrace the Joyous One?  I'll leave Tampon Tim and his page-turner of a wife out of this rant.

Part of what make the Dems dumb is their inability to learn  from experience, as witness their continuing to play the race and Hitler cards. Do they have a death wish? And what does it say about the nearly half of the voters who cast their ballots for that intersectional dumbass?

Collateral observation. The voters are not the electorate. Two reasons. First, the voters include those who vote illegally; the electorate, used normatively, as I am using the term, does not. Second, the electorate include those who do not vote in a given election. The electorate comprise those who are legally entitled to vote. You are legally so entitled only if you are a citizen who has not disqualified himself by, say, committing a felony.  Bernie Sanders thinks that felons should have the right to vote. I make an invective-free case  against this foolish and indeed asinine view at Substack, sine ira et studio

By the way, it appears that magnetic north has shifted position.


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6 responses to “Could Kamala Explain the Difference between True and Magnetic North?”

  1. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    You can’t use a compass near the magnetic poles, because the magnet field lines go INTO the ground there, so Admiral Byrd used a sun compass, details here:
    https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2014/07/10/tbt-how-a-special-compass-helped-richard-byrd-explore-the-poles/
    (From National Graphic, when it was actually informative, and not entertainment at the grocery check out line)

  2. BV Avatar
    BV

    Trump needs to MNGGA!
    Likewise with Sci Amer. Down with woke; it’s a bloody joke. MA-woke free-A.
    Answer me this one: Do all birds fly?

  3. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    The Kiwi is a flightless bird with hairy feathers.
    Dodos couldn’t fly wither, but they are extinct.
    The oldest fossil feathers have their quill down the center, and are not really useable for lift, by the way. They were insulation, we think.
    But no human has a time machine, so we don’t know for sure in this life.

  4. BV Avatar
    BV

    How about penguins? They are birds, aren’t they. They can’t fly as far as I now.

  5. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Penguin wings are actually hydrofoils & penguins get propulsion from them, maybe you could call it flying, but it is in the water, not the air. So penguins don’t fly either, in the usual sense of flying.
    Some penguin info here:
    https://phys.org/news/2023-06-penguin-propulsion-physics-world-fastest.html
    And, why don’t birds have vertical tails? Hint: They don’t need them ! HERE is a brilliant video about that, and note the contribution of brilliant young engineers, the kind that are working for Musk right now, analyzing gov’t waste, and roundly vilified by the Democrats for that.
    Why birds don’t have vertical tails: Brilliant video !
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoT2upDbdUg

  6. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Watch one fly: Student engineers. New stuff. Problem solving. Enjoy ! No vertical tail. Complete control.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATs8zhuhucw

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