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A CAUTIONARY NOTE IN SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS: "Coincidences do happen," or, "How Super Password gives pause to conspiracy theories."
"Super Password" is one of my favorite game shows ever. But beyond entertainment, there is a lesson to be gleaned from the 1985 Tournament of Champions about coincidental patterns--they do happen. Being the fan that I am, I have seen video of the tournament a number of times (the women in the tournament are quite pleasant to look at). Doing so has shown me how innocent coincidences can start to look like conspiracies, a phenomenon which can overwhelm and deceive lesser minds. They will see it, let their imagination--and often paranoia--run with it, and develop a narrative which at the least far overreaches the reality. Specifically, these coincidences and odd events involve Natalie Steele, the winner of the tournament (and taking home a then-amazing total of $106,000). Rewatching the final three episodes (the ones featuring Shelly Smith and Dick Gautier as the celebrities) of the tournament yields some odd things: 1. Steele wears red practically every day. 2. Steel...
Brief analysis on Virginia facing gun confiscation in 2020.
Virginia residents may soon learn the reality of 2A "resistance to tyranny." They have guns, but without the power of the State--that is, the constituent states of our Union--they are virtually useless. Contrary to libertarians and the like, the Founders intended the People's private arms to be used in conjunction with the several States against FEDERAL tyranny. Note James Madison's words from Federalist 46: "Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." Modern counties and cities can try to play that role, but in our country states reign over them. Sheriffs and police chiefs "resisting" can be replaced. And even if not ...
VIDEO and still: "Custom 'Stormtrooper' Hi-Point 995TS 9mm Carbine"
I gotta admit, this looks good. https://youtu.be/joaldPLnbE4