"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Once again, twc central is reduced to a backup 28.8 dialup connection, as noted yesterday. So, Thirteen Things About Dialup, the most notable being,
1. It’s sluggish.
2. Sloth-like.
3. Laggardly.
4. Poky.
5. Dilatory
6. Stalling.
7. Retarded.
8. Lethargic.
9. Listless.
10. Torpid.
11. Stagnant.
12. Unresponsive.
13. Oh, and did I say, “slow”?
And those are its good characteristics.
*heh*
Oh. Well.
Noted @the T-13 Hub.
“Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell
The public schools in Washington D.C. are demonstrably the worst in the nation, which makes this observation and its following question items of serious interest to anyone concerned about America’s future (which, of course, eliminates D.C. politicians *spit* from the mix):
Congress constitutionally governs the District of Columbia. Let Congress take over the DC schools and do whatever it takes to make them work properly. Whatever it takes. It is constitutional, and a good example of a well run public school system would do far more good than the worse far worse than useless Department of Education. Let Congress show us how to have good schools; we are then more likely to listen when they tell us how to run schools in California and Kansas. But of course they will not do that.
Will it take bloody revolution to get decent public schools?
The crux of the problem with Pournelle’s proposal is this: “Let Congress show us how to have good schools…” Congress can’t, of course, because it is filled to the brim with poltroons, ninnies, crooks and self-made idiots. The vanishingly few “good” congresscritters are not enough to leaven the loaf.
*sigh*
And the self-made idiots who make up the sheeple-filled electorate do not make me hopeful that the poltroons, ninnies, crooks and self-made idiots will be kicked out within my lifetime or that of my children or theirs…
“Will it take bloody revolution to get decent public schools?” Will it take one to rid ourselves of these pestiferous poltroons, ninnies, crooks and self-made idiots who rule us? If so, I hold no hope there, either.
The second amendment was put in place largely as a defense against the tyranny that is growing daily from the fevered swamp of the feddle gummint inhabited by the poltroons, ninnies, crooks and self-made idiots who consider themselves our rulers. But we frogs like the growing warnth of the kettle we live in…
(I must remind myself that despair is a deadly sin.)
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Well, after a couple of particularly close lightning strikes (just a few feet north-northwest of twc central) and torrential rains and flashfloods in the area, cable is dead, and twc central is now limping along on a backup 28.8 dialup connection.
Don’t expect much until that changes. 🙂
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Anything by Samuel Francis is worth your time to read. I have often linked to essays by him on the subject he coined a term for: anarcho-tyranny. Here’s another one, one that may explain a bit about the real Bush Derangement Syndrome that Fifi Bush, Felipe Calderon’s lapdog, seems to suffer from (as opposed to the psychological condition of the rabid left that goes by the same name). Or not so much suffer from as cause the rest of us to suffer from. *sigh* A sample:
…the central rule of anarcho-tyranny, the system of government under which we now live, is that if you can’t or won’t punish the guilty, criminalize the innocent and punish them.
Under anarcho-tyranny, criminals aren’t punished (which is why it’s anarchy), but the innocent are (which is why it’s tyranny). The Bush Administration seems determined to develop this insanity to a state of perfection.
Sadly, you can no longer email Samuel Francis, as the VDARE page I link to suggests, since he passed away a couple of years ago. But do go read his essays on the dangers of the system of government we now live under.
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Any of y’all who’ve owned a (older) Jag or other Brit car that used Lucas electric parts will LOL at this site. I did. Over and over and…
Sample:
Back in the 70’s, Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which did not suck.
Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A: Because Lucas makes their refrigerators
Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone.Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb. Joseph Lucas invented the Short Circuit.
My mind blanks on the number of times I disassembled and completely rebuilt, using off-the-shelf electrical parts, the Lucas electrical components on a ’72 XJ12 as they failed one by two by three by… *heh* (Well, Jags are Fords now. Strangely, that’s an improvement in many ways.. But I’m still not buying another one.)
UPDATE (already): for those who’ve been driven batsh*t by their Haynes manual (yeh, I’m a serial masochist: I have a collection of the things) this is a must-read. A collection of LOL hilarious, “I only laugh cos it hurts so much,” info on the (in)famous series of car manuals.
Sample:
HAYNES GUIDE TO TOOLS OF THE TRADE
HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer is nowadays used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.
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A commenter, Thomas, on the previous post shared this:
Without taking a position one way or the other, is there no more intractable issue than this one? I don’t see this ending well no matter what measures are taken.
My response to his comment was lengthy and so, as the prolix person I naturally am, I thought I’d bring it here… and expand upon it. 🙂 Please do note: I in NO WAY intend this as an attack upon Thomas. I appreciate his voice on his blog, and I appreciate his comment, because it points up the ambivalence many of us (including myself, despite what may appear to be my positions. I’m a bit more complex than this blog can show. :-)) on this issue.
Thomas,
“Intractable� In what way do you mean that? If you mean, “Politicians and special interests will refuse to recognize what the polls say Americans want, border enforcement BEFORE any sort of accomodation of illegals is even considered (nearly 80% in the most recent Rassmussen polls), and insist on pushing through an amnesty program that will only exacerbate the problems we now face,†then I agree: the political elites are stubbornly insisting that THEY dictate their wills to the People.
Give a skunk a poodle cut and a dye job and it’s still a skunk.
And that’s what “Fifi” Bush, Felipe Calderon’s lapdog (a gift from Vicente Fox) and his partners in crime still trying to keep their amnesty bill alive really are.
Take action. Call your senators. If they have already come out in opposition to the bill, call in support. If they have not yet done so, encourage them to shoot it down. If they have supported the bill, call and politely, firmly, assertively voice your opposition and state that if they continue to support this bill, you will devote every election cycle for the rest of your life to see that they never hold public office again.
And mean it.
BTW, someone mentioned to me privately that the graphic above was disrespectful to President Bush (Felipe Calderon’s lapdog–a strange lapdog, but then, Felipe Calderon and his government spout so much B.S. about illegal aliens, it’s even fitting there, IMO). That person is right. It IS disrespectful toward President Bush. But not nearly as disrespectful as he has repeatedly proven himself to be by blatantly lying about this bill, about those who oppose it and about his agenda in supporting surrendering our sovereignty to Mexico.
Disrespectful? Disrespect is the least he deserves for deliberately sabotaging the enforcement of laws already on the books to protect U.S. sovereignty. The last I knew, his DUTY, as President, was to
“…take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…” (Constitution, Article 2, section 3)
And the president, any president, who deliberately, wilfully and habitually fails to uphold the laws–indeed, takes steps to undermine their faithful execution–of the U.S. should be impeached, tried and convicted of malfeasance and removed from office.
But perhaps I am a tad extreme. I felt Clintoon should have been removed for lying under oath (and still every time I read recently of Willian Jefferson being indicted, my mind’s ear automatically wants to hear “William Jefferson CLINTON”). Now, in pledging to fulfill his duties as president, Fifi Bush has done so as well. Lied under oath… while giving his oath to faithfully execute the duties of his office.
Oh, well. I have long said that if the laws we have were enforced; if illegal aliens were refused government services (as they routinely are–by law!–in Mexico), etc., that we would see a migration OUT of this country by illegal aliens. Quickly.
Jerry Pournelle proposes something similar, and still generously notes a way he would allow illegal aliens to qualify for citizenship, a route I would actually endorse.
“…as I have often said, the proper way to deal with illegal immigrants, is (1) close the border, (2) pay a bonus to any who will voluntarily leave — say $4,000 or so, which is significant to them but still a savings to both nation and state; (3) instruct the police that any who come their attention as misfeasors of any serious degree be turned over to the authorities for detention and deportation and make that stick, (4) offer citizenship to any who spend 8 years in the armed services ending in honorable discharge, and (5) wait to see what happens then. I have no idea whether you would call that compassionate. It seems very reasonable to me.”
I’m not entirely happy with the idea of rewarding illegals with a bounty to “catch” and deport themselves, but even that I could live with, rather than accept the lies, damned lies and political promises of Fifi Bush’s amnesty bill. But because Pournelle’s suggestions make sense and actually would make strides to strengthen America, they will of course not be welcome by such as Fifi Bush and his partners in crime.
Shame on them all. Fifi Bush amd his co-conspirators in the surrender of U.S. soveriegnty are skunks, one and all, and in any society with more than two ounces of moral fiber would one and all be introduced to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether and taken on a long walk off a short pier.
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Supposedly born on this day, in 570 A.D., Mohammed: oath-breaker, mass-murderer, rapist, slaver, pedophile, glutton, liar, successful brigand and thief; now “resting” in hell.
Naturally, the man honored above all others by Muslims.
UPDATE: In comments, Dan Kaufman gives a link to THIS SONG (LYRICS here), which adequately covers the “pedophile” reference above…
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Do note this important point about the failure of those who sought to further undermine U.S. with their amnesty bill in the senate by seeking cloture. All cloture does on a bill is cut off further debate and send a bill to vote.
Failing to win a cloture vote, Senator “I’m a bigger traitor than the next guy” Reid pulled the bill from consideration.
Got that? He refused to subject it to more debate, to detailed discussion of its provisions. He wanted to ram the thing through without it being examined thoroughly. When he and his partners in treason couldn’t railroad the thing through, he pulled it.
Now, that speaks volumes about its content.
Read the damned thing (no, I am not using profanity) and see if I’m not right. I cannot stand up to full examination in the light of day. It does NOT do what its proponents claim. All it does is make our country less secure, its borders MORE vulnerable, by rewarding outlaws and punishing those who seek to enter legally.
A very model of anarcho-tyranny. WHat Samuel Francis said in 2003 of the Patriot Act is even more applicable to this abortion of reason: “… it prefers to erode the freedom of Americans while aliens, terrorist or not, cross the border freely.”
Among many questions the bill raises, one politicians *spit* who favor surrender to Mexico (signled out because the Mexican government actively aids and abets outlaws seeking illegal entry into the U.S.), the one in the video below (h.t. The Amboy Times) is a standout:
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What the Dims and Felipe Calderon’s Lapdog are feeling just a bit like today after their immigration bill (AKA: “Give Away the Store”) failed to win a cloture vote: rawhide.
Nanny. Nanny. Boo. Boo.
Keep up the pressure on your congresscritters, folks. The Open Invasion traitors–basically the Dims, Felipe Calderon’s Lapdog and all the fake conservatives (AKA, “Lying Bastards”) in the Republican’t Party–haven’t given up, yet. They’ll be back with more lying, slanderous misrepresentations, denials and condemnations of Americans who want to preserve our sovereignty… what’s left of it, that is.
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