Grifting race-baiters at it again

In the linked video, Jason Whitlock explains what Ben Crump and Al Sharpton are really up to regarding Nolan Wells' death.

Also, at about 6 minutes into the livestream, he says that the murderers of Emmett Till included both white *and* black men. I'm nearly 69 years old and I have never once heard that little inconvenient fact.

While all honest and rational people are rightly disgusted by the antics of Ben Crump and Al Sharpton, doing everything they can do to turn Nolan Wells' drowning into a RAYCISSS!!!! issue -- with much profit to themselves, of course -- we should not forget that his "grieving parents" (and I'm convinced, specifically his mother) started this and are keeping it going.

 

Here is the brutal honest truth that no one wants to see and understand -- women tend (*) to view men, including their own sons, *instrumentally* And among black American women, this tendency is even more pronounced than among white American women.

 

(* Notice to the morons: I didn't say *all* women)

 

 

Side-note: One may recall that when "Reverend" Al Sharpton burst into the national consciousness flogging the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, he was very fat. But, for many years now, he has been skeletal ... long before Ozempic made the scene. What might explain such a dramatic transformation?

 

Jason:Whitlock: Sharpton & Crump Hijacked Nolan Wells' Funeral to Shake Down Mississippi 

 

Megyn Kelley: Nolan Wells' Family's Private Autopsy Results REVEALED 

Before it's memory-holed

As of July 20, it has been about two weeks since the WalMart parking-lot shooting in Florida, in which black woman and a white man were squabbling over a parking spot ... and which ended with the black woman shooting and killing the white man. She hasn't been charged with any crime, and she probably never will be charged, because, while they *both* were assholes and *both* aggravated the situation, there appears to be enough reasonable doubt about his death indeed being a crime. That is, she almost certainly has a strong self-defense defense against any potential charges at any degree.

So, what's my point here? It is precisely this -- the race-baiting grifters will *never* allow this case to be a data-point undermining their "America is inherently RAYCISSS!!!!" narrative. To this day, they lie about the Trayvon Martin case, and the Saint George of Fentanyl case. and the Karmelo Anthony case, and on and on. But *this* case goes down the memory-hole.

Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

In the linked Michael Knowles video, he plays a clip of Elissa Slotkin (D-Commiesville) saying this about the SAVE Act: "[It will] literally allow this administration to rig Our Democracy [TM} so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any State to win any election."

Of course, this assertion is both absurd and a lie. The goal of the SAVE Act is to reduce, with an ultimate goal of eliminating, the casting of illegal ballots/votes in federal elections. But, consider the "fear" she is voicing: if illegal votes are eliminated from federal elections, then all Democrats in all States will be hard-pressed to win any elections.  Really?  Democrats in California, Washington, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, all the New  England States, Illinois, Minnesota, and down the line will be hard-pressed to win any elections if the SAVE Act is enacted.  Look, one doesn't need to be a rocket surgeon to understand what she's really saying, what her fear really is: Democrats "winning margin" may well come from illegally cast and/or illegally counted ballots.

She goes on the repeat the Dem talking-point (i.e. lie) that the SAVE Act would "disenfranchise all married women in the meantime, by the way."

Here is how you can tell that the Dems themselves don't believe that particular "talking-point" -- According to Pew Research, linked below, 50% of married women vote or "lean" Republican, but only 45% of married women vote or "lean" Democrat.  According to the internet, there are approximately 68.45 million married women living in the US. Here's the math:50% of 68.45 million is 34.225 married woman who "lean:" Republican, and 45% of 68.45 million is 30.8025 million married women who "lean" Democrat.  So, that's 3.4225 million more married women who "lean" Republican than "lean" Democrat.  

So, if the Democrats *really* believed that the SAVE Act will disenfranchise all married women, they would be supporting it. After all, from their point of view, what's not to love about the delicious irony of a Republican initiative which results a net loss of 3.4225 million Republican votes?

Michael Knowles: Democrat ADMITS Election Fraud Is How They Win

Pew Research: Partisanship by gender, sexual orientation, marital and parental status

Some Questionable Family History for my Cousin

This is info I had put together for a cousin back in 2013, based on my father's remembrances --

Our "Grandma Brown" is, of course, Eunice J. Price ... as to her given name, when my father called her "Eunice 'jay' Price", I don't know whether the 'jay' is an initial "J.", or just the letter "J" itself (in the manner of your father, L B Miller), or whether it's the surname "Jay", or just the word or sound "Jay" because her parent's liked the sound of it.  I've tended to think of her as "Eunice Jay Price", but I'm not aware of any "Jay" family in her ancestry.

Grandma Brown was born on January 27, 1892 (or 1891), near Lutts (on Horse Creek), in Hardin County, Tennessee.  She died on February 5 (or 6), 1981, in South Bend, Indiana (where she is buried).  Her first husband was Westley Scott, who died in 1918 (their children were Earl Scott, who died young, aunt Clura Scott Brown, and uncle Brownloe (or Brownlow) Scott); her second husband was your grandfather, ?? Miller (their son was your father, L B Miller); her third husband was my grandfather, Joseph Haley/Hailey, who died in 1936 (their sons were Jackson William B Haley, who died young, and my father, Samuel Jefferson Richard Joseph Hailey); her fourth husband was (Charles) Benton Brown.

Grandma was 1/4 Jewish by ancestry (by way of her grandmother, Caroline Franks), and according to your father, she was part Indian.  When I was a kid, I asked her if she was part Indian, because to me she looked exactly like an old Indian woman.  She denied it -- but the *way* she denied it, I didn't believe her.  At my mother's funeral, I asked my uncle, L B Miller, her son, whether Grandma was part Indian, and he said that "her people" were ... his manner indicating that *everyone* knew that.  I've read that at one time, if you were "white", it was more socially embarrassing to have Indian ancestors than to have black ancestors (which may explain why my mother didn't know until after her father died that his mother was Indian). 

Grandma's parents were William Price (per the information added below, apparently born in 1870) and Drusilla ("Drew") Frazier (per the information added below, apparently born in 1873, and her name actually being 'Drucella J Frazier').  I don't know which spelling of "Frazier/Frazer/Fraser" they used.  I've read that "Frazier" is an American spelling, with "Frazer" and "Fraser" being the spellings used in Scotland.  The name/spelling "Frazier" *is* associated with Hardin County, so I think that's the one to use.  My father thought that William died in 1910, in Wayne County, Tennessee, and is buried at Lutts, in Hardin County.  My father thought that 'Drew', as he always called her, died in 1911, in Hardin County, Tennessee, at White Hollow.

William Price's father was Edward Price (the family were probably originally Welsh) and his mother was Caroline Franks (who *may* have been born in 1844 ... I found a Caroline Franks in Hardin Co in the 1850 Census, but I don't yet know that she is our Caroline) (her first husband was a Harris).  The Franks family were Jewish, part of a small small clan of inter-related Jewish families who are among "our people" -- so, Grandma was 1/4 Jewish by ancestry.  My father thought they were originally from Germany (though, I've read years ago, that the Jewish surname 'Frank' originated as being what the Ashkenazi, Northern and Eastern European Jews, called the Sephardic Jews who had been expelled from Spain and Portugal ... I suppose because they arrived in German by way of France).  Caroline Franks's family lived along Horse Creek, in Hardin County, Tennessee.  

Drusilla Frazier's father was Edward Frazier (he may have been known as 'Jim'; the family was Scots-Irish, which means they were Scots/English who had migrated to Ireland in the 17th century, before migrating to America in the 18th or 19th century; the family name may have been O'Frayer at one time), my father thought he died about 1950, at the age of 104 (though the information below says he died in 1933); her mother was a Murphy (My father didn't know her Christian name, according to the information below, she was Mary A. Murphy).  

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When I was a kid, my father told me about an old family joke: when you heard that So-and-So Franks was getting married, you were supposed to ask, "Who is the other one?"  The joke being that as there weren't that many Jews in Hardin County, the Franks would tend to marry cousins.  

Both sides of my father's family are related to the Franks family. On the Price side, with Grandma being a granddaughter of Caroline Franks. On the Haley/Hailey side, my father's uncle and aunt (half-siblings of my grandfather Joseph Haley), both married grandchildren, via her first marriage, of Caroline Franks, children of her daughter Mary Harris and Saul Shuburte/Shuburts (both of whom I understand to have been Jewish) -- my great-uncle Byron (or Byrum) Ward ("Uncle Barn") married Mary Jane Shuburte and my great-aunt Zubie Sesile Ward married J Walter Shuburte.  Another two daughters of Mary Harris and Saul Shuburte, married brothers named Brown -- Henry Brown married Lizzy Shuburte, and William Brown married Cass (Catherine?) Shuburte.  Henry Brown and Lizzy Shuburte were the parents of our aunt Clura Scott Brown's husband, Carl Brown.

These Browns, related to both of my father's parents, are also related to the Bensons.  But, I know next to nothing about your mother's people, so I don't know just how the relationships work out.  For instance Edward Brown, a brother of the Henry and William mentioned above, married Nancy Benson, but I don't know how she may be related to your mother -- Nancy Benson's mother was Lizzy Hatley, whom I take to be a 1/2 sister to Arthur Hatley, married to Rosey Esther (Ethel?) Price (Grandma had a sister, whose name I have written as Rosey Ethel Price; I found an obituary for a Will Price, who is definitely Grandma's brother, which lists his surviving sister as Mrs Ethel Hatley), and "Tude" Hatley, who married another Franks woman, and "Queeny" Hatley, who married "Jap" Copeland, 1/2 brother of Henry Brown, William Brown, and the Edward Brown who married Nancy Benson.  Someone my father called "Icey Dora" Benson (I suppose that's Isadora) married James Brown, a brother of Grandma's fourth husband, Charles Benton Brown.  Idella Brown (a sister of James Brown and Charles Benton Brown) married a John Scott (whom I suspect is related to Grandma's first husband).  Their sister, Louella Brown, had a son named Jack Horton, who married a Della Benson.

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I did find a webpage [back in 2013, but which no longer exists in 2026] about an "Ed Frazier", who was married to a "Mary A. Murphy"  -- they had a daughter named "Drucella J Frazier", born in April 1873 ... making her old enough to be Grandma's mother.  Ah-ha! "Drucella J Frazier" married William Price on April 23, 1891 in Wayne County, Tennessee (which is next to Hardin).  So, she is our great-grandmother, and I've been misspelling her first name all these years; and perhaps the "J" in Grandma's name stands for the same middle name as hers (Grandma would have been their first-born).  

According to these linked pages:

1) William Price was born in Tennessee in 1870. Drucella J Frazier was  in April 1873 in Manteca, San Joaquin, California.  They married in Wayne County, Tennessee, on April 23, 1891. (My father thought that William died in 1910, which would have made him about 40 at death, and "Drew" in 1911, which would have made her about 38 at death.)

2) Edward Frazier was born in April 1848, in Tishomingo County, Mississippi (which I believe is where our aunt Clura lived; it's adjacent to Hardin County, Tennessee, and Lauderdale County, Alabama), and died on October 1, 1933, in Lilbourn, New Madrid County, Missouri. Mary A. Murphy was born in 1846 in Martin Mills, Wayne County, Tennessee, and died in April 1890, in Martin Mills, Wayne County, Tennessee.  They married June 18, 1867, at Martin Mills, Wayne County, Tennessee; they had 14 children, with Drucella being the youngest (and he had another seven with his second wife, Mary Emma Brown ... who appears to be related to some of the other Browns in our family, and to the Franks, and to the Murphys -- pioneer families tended to be interrelated, for example: James Sylvester Frazier, son of Edward Frazier and Mary A. Murphy, and brother of our "Drew" Frazier, married Emma Tilley, daughter of Catherine E Brown, who was the sister of Mary Emma Brown, his father's second wife).

3) Edward Frazier was a son of "J Peter Williams" (born in 1811 in Lauderdale County, Alabama ... my father was also born in that county ... and died in 1859 in Martin Mills, Wayne County, Tennessee) and "Catherine" (born in 1818 in Lauderdale County, Alabama and died in Wayne County, Tennessee); they married in 1835.  Of their seven children, the first (William, though he's also listed as 'William Williams') and fifth (Edward) have the surname 'Frazier', the others have the surname 'Williams' ... I don't know that that's about.

[Note added in 2026: -- A Ward second-cousin once told me that my grandfather, Joseph Haley/Hailey lived most of his life as "Joseph Ward" ('Ward' being the surname of his step-father, his father having died before he was born), and was in fact buried under that name.]

4) Mary A. Murphy was the daughter of "Murphy" (born in 1820, in South Carolina) and "Elizabeth Lizzie" (born in 1826, in Newberry County, South Carolina). 

"Hamilton won in the end."

"Hamilton won in the end."

Much of that is due to Jefferson's own flawed character. Examples:

-- Hamilton and Jefferson almost always offered Washington opposing viewpoints/advice, but Hamilton backed up his recommendations with data and argument; Jefferson did not.

-- Jefferson, pissed that Washington almost always took Hamilton's recommendations over his own, began a "whisper campaign" against Washington, accusing him of being senile.

UNDERSTAND, this was while he was still Washington's Sec. of State -- rather than doing the honorable thing and resigning the office when he found himself in constant opposition to the President's policies, he started the State Department's venerable tradition of undermining the sitting President's policies.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters: 250 Years of America

That Was Then (and Them), This Is Now (and Us)

Two hundred years ago, there was money to be made "harvesting" the teeth of the battlefield dead to be used to make dentures for the wealthy. We today think that barbaric and ghoulish.

Today, there is even more money to be made "harvesting" the vital organs of the roadway not-quite-dead to be transplanted into the bodies of the wealthy-by-world-standards, and then more money to be made by keeping those people on immune-suppressant drugs for the rest of their lives. And we think this civilized and humane.

Isn't that odd?

'Melo' vs Chow

As far as I'm concerned, 14 years old is old enough to face the death penalty for this sort of thing.

Concerning the recent SC case over which the black racists and their leftist puppet-master were freaking-out, wherein 'Rick' Chow was found not guilty of murder in killing the 14-year old black kid whom he said had pointed the gun he was carrying at Chow's son --
We *all* know that the illegally armed 14-year old black kid was trying to screw up his courage to commit armed robbery. in the end, he couldn't (yet) bring himself to do it, so he ran.

Now, certainly, if the Chow men had not pursued the felon-in-waiting, he wouldn't have died in 2023. Though, it is an open question whether he'd still be alive today; whether the realization of what he had attempted to do would have, on its own, "scared him straight", or whether he'd have doubled-down on criminality and gone on to murder some innocent.

Now, also consider this: Karmelo Anthony -- who, from the very start, was *obviously* guilty of murder -- was allowed his freedom, at a vastly reduced bail, in the year between the murder and the trial. On the other hand, 'Rick' Chow -- who had a credible claim of self-defense, and who eventually prevailed at trial -- was forced to rot in jail during the three years between the killing of the junior thug and the "not guilty" verdict.

Why is that? We *all* know why that is.

Gateway Pundit: 14 Year Old Arrested for Armed Robbery on Kids’ Lemonade Stand in Boston

They're calling him 'Melo', but 'mellow' he was not

I wonder -- If some national news organization were to actively treat black-on-black murder not with a yawn, not as a mere local event of no wider significance, but were to report every single one, anywhere in the country, with the same intensity that "the media" treats even the most minor of the actually rare white-on-black crime, would the black racists who refuse to admit the truth about [any number of cases, not limited to the Karmelo Anthony murder case] *finally* shut the hell up about Muh Oppression?

There is currently so much black-on-black *murder* in this country, to say nothing of lesser crimes, that I expect one could run a 24-hour news channel devoted strictly to reporting on the murders and not lack for material to report.

On a recent misrepresentation of a century-old "miscegenation" case

When asked about Italians and Spaniards, Pipoly claimed they were not considered white over a century ago which caused Alito to quip, “You have a really broad definition of who’s white and who’s not white.”

Pipoly's intellectually dishonest response is rooted in a leftist misrepresentation of [and also grievance-mongering by some persons of Italian descent about] the 1922 Rollins v. Alabama "miscegenation" case from a century ago, which overturned a trial court's conviction of an interracial couple of violating Alabama's then-law against interracial marriages on the grounds that while the State had established that the woman of the couple had been born in Sicily, it had not established that she was "white". The practical effect of this decision was to make Alabama's "miscegenation" law moot, without explicitly over-turning it.

Gateway Pundit: Justice Samuel Alito Humiliates Leftist Lawyer With One Brilliant Question After He Asserts That Trump Ended TPS For Migrants For Racial Reasons

A Real-Time Example of Unhinged/Irrational Jew-Hatred

First, here is a comment someone made to the YouTube video linked below --

These 2 are mouthpieces of Israel, they will tell lies like pushing democracy and will counter signal nationalism whilst promoting nationalism in Israel.

Next, here is my transcription of what Haviv Rettig Gur said at @10:44 mark --

I want 'International Law', I wish we had 'International Law'. Do you know what 'International Law' would mean? ... Palestinians? What the Hell has 'International Law' ever done for them? Has it protected them against Israel? Has it protected them from Lebanon, which for decades had laws on the books [... which] treated the Palestinian refugees, for four generations, in Lebanon, the way the Czarist regime treated the Jews ... Where was 'International Law' to protect Palestinians, either from us [Israel] or from anybody? ... Well, why didn't the Arab world take in any refugees from Syria? Why [do] Germany, Britain, and France have to take in more than all the Arab world combined; each one of them, on any given month, more than the Arab world ever has? 

As you can see, what the man actually said is the direct opposite of what the Jew-hater asserts that he (habitually) does.  If you pay attention, you'll see that this is a recurring theme amongst Jew-haters.

By the way, there is no such thing as 'International Law'. And, unlike the speaker, I don't want there to be such a thing, because I distrust the people who rule foreign countries even more than I distrust the ones who rule ours.  As he rightly says, a "law" which cannot be enforced -- you know, with force -- is not a law.  

To the very limited extent that there ever will be such a thing as 'International Law' in the foreseeable future, 'International Law' is whatever international agreements or obligations the United States is willing to expend treasure, and possibly lives, to enforce.

Winston Marshall:  “International Law” Doesn’t Actually Exist and The World ABUSES It | Haviv Rettig Gur

Johnny Appleseed Didn't Sleep Here

I'm so disappointed -- my property is on a hilltop near the town square (I can see the buildings around the square when the trees are bare). The property used to be an orchard. I've seen an old hard-drawn "map" of the city from the 1800s showing the orchard; I don't recall the date on the map, but it was before Glessner Ave [the street 1/2 block north of my property] existed.

Anyway, I'm "disappointed" because the thought suddenly came to me today to wonder whether Johnny Appleseed [John Chapman] had planted the orchard that was on this property Apparently, while his city lot wasn't too far from here, his nurseries were further outside town.

It Wasn't an Act of Kindness

After this Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst.” Now there was set there a vessel full of vinegar; and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, “It is finished.” And He bowed His head and gave up the ghost. -- John 19:28-30 (KJ21)

Crucifixion was intended to be painful, prolonged, and humiliating. The Roman soldier was not offering a kindness to a dying man, but rather he was getting in a final humiliation to the man they were torturing to death. For understand, the Romans used a sponge on a stick to wipe themselves. 

On "All Your Job Are Belong to AI"

AI is hype, it has always been hype, and it will always by hype. There will *never* be an AI that *actually* thinks, that *actually* knows/understands, that *actually* reasons.

There is presently a lot of concern -- valid concern, in fact -- that as AI models are refined in the coming years, AI will eliminate huge swaths of "white-collar" jobs. But, understand this: AI may indeed eliminate these jobs not because the AI is so "advanced", or (laughably) "better at thinking that humans are", but rather because the jobs are pointless RIGHT NOW. The jobs are make-work "jobs", not *real* jobs, for they do not produce real value -- in fact, such "jobs" actually destroy value by wasting the ultimate resource, which is a human's potential to produce something of value.

Here is an insightful comment someone posted in response to the linked video -- "I think that the singularity is when a model has collapsed to such a degree that it gives the same answer to every prompt."

Presumably, that answer will be "42".

Via YouTube, George D. Montañez, PhD: Model Collapse Ends AI Hype

On Cement-board Siding

This is the text of an email I sent a friend about my experience and thought on cement-board siding --

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Around here [north-central Ohio], there were two options: "Hardie Board" (James Hardie Co.) from Lowe's, and "Alura" from Menards.  I used the "Hardie Board" on the sunroom (2nd/3rd floor addition), but overall I used the "Alura" even though it was more expensive. 

[Edit: I bought the siding from Menard's even though, ever since they went full "face-diaper nazi" during the Plandemic, I do my best to not give them any business. The prices at Menard's are generally lower than at Lowe's and Home Depot, but I *never* go to Menard's unless I can't find what I want at Lowe's or Home Depot; that's how much they pissed me off harassing me about not wearing a face-diaper. On top of which, while they "officially" ban mere pets from the premises, the use the HIPAA laws as the excuse to ignore that particular policy.  Odd: you don't dare make an assumption -- nor query -- about the health-needs of that person who clearly has brought a mere pet, not a service animal, into the store, but you're fully qualified to determine that *my* health won't be injured by forcibly/artificially restricting my breathing with an utterly useless and pointless cloth.]

I'll try to list what I see as pros and cons.

At Lowe's, the cement-board siding was in stock (*), and I could buy pieces individually, as I wanted/needed them. That (*) is because there are two widths, and in the end they didn't have enough of the width I was using. Or, perhaps it's that they started stocking pre-finished, rather than the "raw" I'd been buying.

On the other hand, the "Alure" from Menards was special order; a full "pallet" being 256 pieces (or, 1536 sq.ft. coverage).

"Hardie Board" — As far as I can tell, it comes only as "textured" to look like aged cedar which had been allowed to weather for many years without a proper coat of paint.  I *hate* the fake "wood grain" they put in vinyl siding, and that hatred is the main, or even only, reason I went with the "Alure", despite it being at least $2.00 more per piece.  Though, as it turns out, once the "Hardie Board" is painted, I doesn't repulse me, as I thought it would.

Pros — cheaper per piece; higher cement content (which results in some 'cons', and what might be a very big 'pro' in the long-term); available as unfinished (which for me was a 'pro', though obviously, other people will prefer the pre-finished);

Cons -- higher cement content: thus, heavier per piece, and more brittle; also more dense, meaning you'd need to drill pilot-holes if you use screws as attachment (just with the 12-15 pieces used on this project, we dulled a cement bit while drilling the pilot holes).  If I recall correctly, they make special nails for this siding, but I much recommend using screws, as one slip of the hammer could ruin your day.

By the way, the reason I put off re-siding the house for so many years after it was clear that I need to do so is that I was fearful of the cement-board being *too* brittle. The vinyl that is on most people's houses was never an option, I despise it that much. I was hoping to find a third option, such as a *solid* (and smooth surfaced) vinyl.

"Alure" — Like the "Hardie Board", it comes "textured" to look like aged cedar, but they also make smooth, untextured.  It can be either pre-finished (Sherwin-Williams paint) or "primed" (I use scare-quotes, because I couldn't see any priming on what was delivered to me).

Pros — lighter, due to being made of more fibers and less cement than the H-B; being less dense, drilling pilot-holes wasn't absolutely necessary, as the "self-tapping" screws we used were able self-tap; being less dense, it was easier to cut the pieces, and it was possible the "trim" or "fine-tune" it with a utility knife.

Cons — more expensive per piece; buying less than a full "pallet" of 256 pieces adds a surcharge for "breaking" the "pallet" 

Potential Con -- it seems to be composed of compressed layers; the potential 'con' is that several times, perhaps because we made some pilot-holes too close to the edges, the layers of small areas at corners de-laminated. 

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As mentioned, I bought unfinished siding, and painted it myself.  As Providence arranged it, right after I ordered the siding, I happened to come across 20 gallons of paint formulated for decks and floors (including for cement) on clearance at Lowe's for $20 per gallon. I bought it all. It wasn't exactly the color I had in mind, but it was close, and I really like how it looks contrasted with the yellow of the trim.

Telemarketers: Why Not At Least Pretend to Respect the People You Annoy

What's with these people constantly calling, pretending to want to buy my property? It goes in waves, one or two per day for a few days, then stops for a while. With most of the calls, you can tell that it's from a telemarketer/call-center before the call-center computer routes the connection to "the next available representative".

One of my *speculations* is that at least some of these call are being made for the county tax-man, as a cheap way to do the property tax re-evaluations.

And, speaking of telemarketers -- the whole "industry" is vile enough as it is, but that they don't even respect me/us enough to bother me/us with "representatives" who at least speak English really annoys me.

Concerning 'randomness' and the freedom of the will

This is a comment I emailed to my internet-friend, Kristor, in response to his recent post, linked below.

A claim of 'randomness' is a claim of lack of correlation between two events or states. Thus, to say that State-A changed to or became State-B 'randomly', is to say that the change happened without cause; which is absurd. 

Making such a claim about state-changes of the will is even more absurd than making it about merely physical state-changes; and, for that matter, more absurd than the typical mere denial that the will is free. For, once again, a claim of 'randomness' is a claim that there is *no* correlation, no relationship, between 'this' and 'that'. But, of course, and even were it true that the will is not free, there is, of necessity, by definition, some sort of correlation between my decision at 'Instant-A' to do 'X' and my subsequent decision at 'Instant-B' to not do 'X' after all.

Kristor: Contra the Most Succinct Argument Against the Freedom of the Will