Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I put this link in a previous post but I think it deserves more attention. WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS (RAW) – ISIS begins killing Christians in Mosul, CHILDREN BEHEADED I haven’t seen anything about this on the general news sites on the www.

It looks like Israel is on the verge of all out war with Harm Us. Let’s start with the basics. “Operation Protective Edge is continuing,” the premier stated. “No one announced its termination.” “The campaign will continue until the mission is completed: an extended period of quiet in the South,” he added, referring to Hamas…

Like it or not, what’s happening in Iraq right now is part of a rational process: What the jihadis have accomplished is grim enough, but their showoff videos of beheadings and mass executions are minor surges in what is, like it or not, a rational process: The partition of Iraq into three, rather than the…

From a Samizdata comment comes this link: Russia hits West with food import ban in sanctions row. President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday that Russia would retaliate against Western sanctions. The embargo will last for a year and takes effect immediately. Mr Medvedev ordered the agriculture ministry and producer organisations to find ways to boost…

It looks like the Liberty faction of the Republican Party is gaining ground with the youth. Amir Zendehnam passionately supports marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the Republican Party. He is not alone. The 26-year-old aspiring restaurateur and chairman of the party’s West Los Angeles central committee, is one of a raft of ethnically…

The above image is from The Blaze which has more to say: According to the IDF’s official blog, the manual proves that Hamas is cognizant of the fact that Israel works diligently to minimize civilian casualties and that the terror group “exploits these efforts by using civilians as human shields against advancing IDF forces.” The…

This is the best vintage Grateful Dead video I have seen so far: It never fails to amaze me what turns up on Youtube. Sorry for the erratic posting, but long overdue work takes its toll. Here’s a nice before and after involving an arduous struggle with a single tree that had grown over the…

I got the link to the following piece from a comment at Samizdata. The piece looks to me to be a voice of European sanity. While the European populations are shrinking and the best-qualified young people are leaving, we continue to allow mass immigration of unqualified Muslims, who will soon make our welfare states collapse.…

Longer and IMO better version: Nothing Is True. Everything Is Permitted.

This is incredibly messed up. So why does everyone seem to put up with it? Are some people trying to make a slave state out of the other people or what?

It seems that Hamas has published a pamphlet on kidnapping. A few months ago Hamas published an 18-page booklet entitled “Guide for the Kidnapper,” which includes operational guidelines for carrying out kidnappings. For example, the guide recommends to carry out kidnappings on rainy days, to use pistols with silencers, to use backup cars to move…

The 72 hour truce in Gaza lasted 90 minutes. A separate military statement said the incident took place at around 0630 GMT, 90 minutes after a 72-hour ceasefire was to have gone into effect. What was the incident? The UN said it was informed by Israel of “a serious incident this morning after the start…

Well at least for a while. A spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, confirmed that all militant factions in the Palestinian territory had agreed to suspend violence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed the agreement. Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian factions would travel to Cairo immediately for negotiations aimed at building…

I know this is going to go over a lot of people’s heads here. Thermodynamics is probably one of the most difficult subjects in the physical sciences. In my Nuke School Class it washed out about 1/2 the class. I got a top mark. That said – let me give you the short version. The…

First the New York Times and now National Review. Except the National Review post is a repost from 1996. That would make the Times only 18 years behind the times. The times they are a changin.

Tne New York Times has come out against Federal Marijuana prohibition. And Yahoo gives the usual pot joke headline. It gets tiresome. Don’t they have any jokes not written by Cheech and Chong? Or anything serious to say? The New York Times editorial board on Saturday… Saturday? Saturday? What exactly are they trying to hide?

Great. First I read that an American governor (a Republican often thought of as having a libertarian bent) is ordering American troops to perform domestic law enforcement. HOUSTON — When Gov. Rick Perry of Texas announced plans to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to help with the border crisis, it came with a power unexpected…

Did you know you could be on a secret no fly list? Tallbloke has the news. I’m a little late to the party but I thought it would be a good opportunity to do some Gilbert and Sullivan.

Shit! Did I just forget* the magnificent anniversary of the sainted Cuban Revolution? Nah, fuck em! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Cfrl7hMoQ Or whatever. * I really don’t think I have actually forgotten in the true (either the Orwellian or modern silly honest) sense, because it’s only 11:00 p.m here in Berkeley. MORE: I’m still on the road in my…