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February 13, 2007

Listing to Starboard III

Oh, yeh: I’m lazy. So this is also a linkfest. More below the roundup.

Leaning juuuust a tad to the right…

First, a post that had a mangled trackback link last weekend but is really worth reading: Andrea Graham’s Roots in Frozen Generation at The Lost Genre Guild. Some interesting reading over there.

Just a reminder: Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants., or, as Newt Gingrich wrote recently, Time to Put English First.

Michelle Malkin puts a =30= on the Amanda Marcotte brouhaha. And if you missed last week’s “When Angry German Boy met Angry Edwards’ Blogger”, here’s your chance to remedy that miss of The Hit of the Week.

But then, as Dean Barnett notes at Hugh Hewitt’s blog, The Girl [Marcotte] Can’t Help Herself!. It’d all be hilarious if the continuing examples of psychopathic disorders weren’t so blatant in Marcotte’s writing.

Alexandra’s re-issue of an article from last year, “Restoring Humility To Our National Psyche In The Face Of Nihilism” is a provocative read. My $0.02: true humility is looking at oneself honestly, not as any better OR worse than in reality.

A reminder from Big Lizards that it wasn’t human-caused global warming that killed off the dinosaurs… (lil editorial license in the characterization *heh*)

Jerry Pournelle’s comment on the same material is on target:

…a theory with evidence casting doubt on the “Global warming is due to human activity” hypothesis can’t find any journal to publish it, even though the theorist has impeccable credentials. Are we astonished? I certainly am not. This is the kind of thing that set Michael Crichton off. And it’s not science, just what a lot of scientists do…

And see the comment by Czech President Vaclav Klaus noted at Chaos Manor. (Page down quite a way–though Harry Erwin’s Letter From Emgland is worth a read, too.)

Started hunting around yesterday when I noticed (yeh, I guess I should check more often) that the TTLB Ecosystem has apparently not changed since about the first week of January. Maybe this is why. Yep. N.Z. Bear’s in the thick of The Victory Caucus.

The Board is currently kicking off the first of many discussions on our group blog, taking on the most fundamental question of all: how do we define victory?

I hope you will visit the site and join us in sending a message to our leaders, our troops, and the world that America will not flinch from the fight, and that we will not settle for anything less than victory.

Meanwhile, as N.Z. is occupied elsewhere, twc is retaining its ridiculous ranking in the TTLB Ecosystem game. Silly, just silly.

Poor Hildebeast! 😉

Well, that’s all the time I can give this lil roundup on a bleak midwinter’s morning. Be sure to track in with my reading list for this evening!

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February 12, 2007February 12, 2007

Where is Charles Martel When We Need Him?

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Muslims like throwing the Crusades around, egging on the self-haters in civilized countries with cries alleging horror at the hands of Western invaders of peaceful Muslim lands. Pardon me while I throw the bullshit flag.

In the early 600s A.D., Mohammed concocted his snake oil about an allah’ that would serve his purpose: specifically, advancing the cause of Mohammed and providing a means for him to legitimize his rapacious grab for wealth and power.

Keep that firmly fixed i n your minds: Islam is one man’s con game writ large. From his very first celebrated victory at what is now known as Medina, no matter what one line in the Koran says about the peaceful spread of Islam*, the history of Islam has been dominated by brutality, lies, mass murder and oppression.

Muslims like to throw the eleventh and twelfth century crusades in the West’s face as proof of the West’s evil. What then the answer to the vicious rapine of innocents committed in the name of Mohammed’s construct, “Allah”, for three or four centuries before that time, beginning with Mohammed’s own very first “victory”–the beseigement, betrayal of a negotiation of surrender, mass murder, rape and enslavement of the Jews of Medina? (An act of mass murder, rape and slavery celebrated now by all “good” Muslims as a holy event.)

And so it went. Upon Mohammed’s death, Islam continued to follow the pattern he set down: give lip service to “peace” while spreading the “faith” by the sword. And so, in 732, the army of the Umayyad Caliphate, under the leadership of Abd-er Rahman, had swept all opposition before it in its march through France.

Until the Battle of Tours and its opposition by a much smaller force led by Charles Martel. There and then, under the leadership of the grandfather of Charlemagne, the invasion of the West by Islam was stopped cold.

But even at that, we can see the one constant thread of Islam from the day of its “prophet” until now has been: actions speak louder than words, and despite Islam’s claim to be a religion of peace, the truth–born out by faithful Muslims’ adherence to the true acts of their “prophet”–has been that Islam is a cult of violence, deciet, theft, rape, slavery and death, and it has never strayed far from its true nature. Those who are honest Muslims today are all Islamic terrorists and terrorist supporters, because terrorists are the true disciples of the Butcher of Medina.

Where is our Charles Martel when we need him? For that matter, where is a modern-day Jan Sobieski?

Never forget that from the first lying promise by Mohammed that he would accept an honorable surrender by the Jews of Medina, followed by their slaughter, that Islam has viewed itself as at war with everyone not Muslim. In fact, the generic term for everyone outside the Muslim world is “dar-a-harb” or “house of war”. And all the lies by CAIR and Islamic apologists today that Islam is a peaceful religion are colored by Mohammed’s own words that war is deception, and his permission to lie whenever necessary to protect the cause of Islam.

Lies, brutality, violence, slavery, oppression, death: all normative results of an Islamic society. Because they are the normative results of following a liar who perpetrated violence to spread his con game, enslaved whomever he wished (whenever he could) when opposed (or had them killed) and stole whatever he wanted from the plunder.

So, just a lil heads up: whenever you see a Western leader holding hands with a Saudi “prince” or hear some politician *spit*, Mass Media Podperson or Academia Nut Fruitcake or other Islamic apologist espousing a live-and-let-live or even appeasement approach to Islamic terrorism, just remember that anyone who celebrates Mohammed’s brutal mass murder, sack and enslavement of the Quraiza (and indeed all other Jewish tribes of the Arabian penninsula who would not bow to his false god–meaning bow to Mohammed) is either a terrorist or terrorist enabler, in other words, a Muslim.

*Sura 2: 257–“There must be no coercion in matters of faith.” An injunction which is revealed by Mohammed’s own life to be a lie.

Note: is seems Angel’s latest post didn’t trackback as it ought to have done. A shame, cos when I saw it, the first photo reminded me that low culture is apparently about to invade America’s Third World County. Yep. The Mouse has bought a HUGE tract of land in southwest third world county. *sigh*

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February 10, 2007February 10, 2007

Compeled by Compassion

Michael Reagan (no relation to President Reagan). Vietnam Combat Veteran, portrait artist, a man with a mission, and not from any of us.

Two scriptural references came to mind as I watched the video of Michael speaking at the 7th of February Rotary International meeting in Seattle. Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (NLT) and Romans 8:28-29: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.” (NLT)

Here is a story of a man, who, a few years ago, retired from his business in order that he could draw portraits of those who have fallen in the GWoT. Why? Watch the video, he explains it best. He didn’t know why at first, but the message seems to have been clarified now in the 550 (as of the morning of 2/7/2007) portraits he has completed. 2 a day and he is very good at what he does.

Humble, too (watch the video).If you haven’t watched the video yet, here’s a teaser as to how he got started on this path”

“I found myself coming back from Vietnam, and I had a hard time for a few years just being able to feel. Took a lot of work by a lot of my friends, my wife, and a lot of people who loved me to allow me to reach this stage, where I could actually feel.

“Evening Magazine two years ago decided to do a little piece on all the celebrity portraits that I had done. We did a little five minute piece, it was called “Miller Time”…

“At the end of it, I said something to John Miller. I said, “You know, I’ve drawn the Pope, six presidents, and 137 Playboy playmates.” John said to me, he said, “I guess that about does it all for you.” And I said “Yep. That was it.”

“That piece made it into the Evening Magazine piece. I believe that piece is why then – the next day it was distributed around the country – I believe that that comment is why I’m standing up here today.

“Two days after that piece aired across the country I got a call from a young woman in Boise, Idaho. Her name was Cherice Johnson. She said to me, “How much would you charge me to do a portrait of my husband?”

Not so strange to me any more, that people “back into” such callings, not even realizing at the time, how their life has prepared them for such a time as this. This is but one more story, full of an invisible design for the life of Michael Reagan.

Micheal has set up the Fallen Heros Project as a non-profit organization. Donations can be made to support him in his work.Thank God for a man of such talent to bring solace to the families who have paid the price of freedom for many, our citizens and others of the world.Please pass the story along, it’s one worth reading.H/T: Mudville Gazette

Crossposted from Chaotic Synaptic Activity

February 9, 2007

Lazy Blogger’s Post: Windows Optimizing for Lazy People…

…or even just folks with better things to do than spend time running one standalone program after another.

[Nothing profound or particularly newsworthy. This is just another timesaving post from my ~~slush~~ drafts pile. I’ve been using/informally testing the iObit product referenced below for a couple of months and find it very useful myself, now.]

Here’s the deal: like it, love it, indifferent or hate it, Windows is here to stay for a while on most folks’ desktops. And it’s the target of choice, for many reasons, for malware of all kinds. In addition, Windows installations “cruft up” something fierce after only a few days or at most weeks of use and become, if not unusable, at the very least less than optimally-configured as a result.

What to do? Well, since converting to Linux is still out for most ordinary users (in spite of the “Aunt Tilly” friendliness of some recent distros) and switching to Mac OS X(.xx) is just trading for a different straightjacket–one that is apparently safer in part because it’s a more restrictive straightjacket–then maintaining a relatively cruft free and malware free Windows install is pretty much necessary. Until recently, that’s meant using several different products to achieve that goal, something that can be daunting or simply too time-consuming for folks who just want to get their web cruising, media management and document creation done.

Sure, Symantec and others have touted their integrated security and computer management/cleanup products for some time, but none of the “big boys'” products have appealed to me to the degree that I’d recommend them to clients. In particular, all of them, including the new Microsoft Onecare, have had serious flaws in execution or feature set that have made them “no deals” for me, and what I cannot justify for my own use, I cannot recommend to others.

Recently, however, I’ve found a product that, while lacking a software firewall and anti-virus, has most of the other features I have recommended several standalone products to fulfill, and fulfills those features quite well. That’s at least a step in the right direction for lazy–or just busy–folks who just cannot make the time to run several different computer management/anti-malware apps every day.

That’s a pic of Advanced Windows Care2 (PE) in action. (Yeh, I’ve blanked out any even vague identifiers that might peg which machine I was running it on. :-)) I’ve run it and several different apps that perform the same functions in comparison runs and had surprisingly similar results. With Adaware SE Personal and Spybot Search and Destroy scanning for spyware and startup issues, Fixit Utilities 5 scanning for registry errors and cruft files, for example, I found pretty much the same issues that Advanced Windows Onecare2 (PE) found with a one click, one pass effort. The general Windows and network optimizing suggestions were icing on the cake.

For disk defragging, personal firewall and anti-virus protection I’ll still have to continue to recommend (mostly) separate applications, but for those who find running multiple apps to scan for registry errors, spyware and other security issues to be a pain, I feel conmfortable recommending IObit’s Advanced Windows Onecare, now. The “Personal Edition” is even free for home/private use.

[Note: iObit now offers a pretty decent lil defragger, too. And what the heck, if you do download it, tell ’em I sent you. If asked (and I don’t know that iObit will ask) use mnmus@thirdworldcounty.us as a reference, if you will. Yeh, iObit might give me a license to the “Pro” version. “Might” being the operative word. If they don’t, I’d still recommend it for “lazy” or too-busy Windows users.]

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February 8, 2007

T-13, 1.16 13 Things About Trees

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
– Joyce Kilmer

1.) Shade–Spring and Summer only for deciduous

2.) Raking leaves… or not (if you’re lucky, your neighbor will rake your leaves. *heh*)

3.) Mimosas are pest trees and should be (ex)terminated with extreme prejudice

4.) They are also extremely hard to kill off (#$^%&!)

5.) Oaks love to throw their acrons at metal roofs. No, really.

6.) Growing your own walnuts, pecans, etc., from “seed” is so easy squirrels do it.

7.) The Boys don’t seem to be able to learn this simple fact: trees do NOT bark; bark grows on trees. (Yeh, it’s a theme this week: the link’s to a post discussing how my son’s dogs behave when inside. Theme? It ties to border control.)

8.) Trees moderate more than their immediate environment, but oh! how I appreciate the way they moderate their immediate environment with shade (even in winter–the spindly shade offered by bare limbs is visually appealing), cleansing of the air and expiration of cooling moisture in the summer.

9.) Who doesn’t enjoy the sound of lkeaves whispering in a breeze?

10.) Or feel a pang of aprehension when large limbs overhanging–or near–the house begin to creak and pop in high winds?

11.) Ever heard the sounds of multiple tree limbs and branches cracking or even exploding in sudden deep freezing weather? It can sound like semi-auto gunfire when a forested area begins to go.

12.) And limbs brought down by severe weather? Do you know how heavy a mere 20′ limb with a 12′ base cross section is? Do NOT try to move the thing without cutting it down to manageable size… and maybe even then use a tow vehicle for some… (Yes, that’s a note to self :-))

13.) Sawing “lumber” can lead to extensive and deeply sawn “ZZZzzzzs”. Especially for sit-on-one’s-can compgeeky dudes.

So, not “about trees” so much as “a non-exhaustive, random list about how I view trees”. 🙂

Trackposted at the Thursday Thirteen Hub

February 7, 2007

DHS Inspectors LIED to Congress About Border Patrol Case

See Heidi’s post at Euphoric Reality:

“DHS Inspectors Admittedly LIED to Congress About Border Patrol Case”

Did anyone really expect the facts to be otherwise?

(Thanks for the tip via email, Heidi)

Read Heidi’s post, then consider the lil tidbit I included in my own mailout referring to this travesty of justice (too bad that phrase has become trite; this is the mind of case it fits perfectly *sigh*):

It’s one of the best recent examples of what Samuel Francis called “anarcho-tyranny”–see:

Synthesizing Tyranny

The nut of the article (at least as far as this example is concerned):

“What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyrannyÃ¢â‚¬â€the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes…

…What really drives the system is the revolution of our time, the internal onslaught against traditional identities and values that is usually termed the Ã¢â‚¬Å“culture war.Ã¢â‚¬Â When we think about which laws are enforced and which are not, this becomes clear.

The state today is perfectly capable of enforcing laws against illegal immigration and catching and deporting the illegals who are already here. It is also entirely capable of catching and imprisoning or executing the killers, rapists, and robbers who continue to haunt our streets and neighborhoods, just as it is entirely capable of catching speeders and red-light runners. The conventional conservative explanation of such Ã¢â‚¬Å“failuresÃ¢â‚¬Â on the part of the state, as the result of Ã¢â‚¬Å“weakness of willÃ¢â‚¬Â or something, does not wash. The state and those who control it clearly have the will to enforce those laws they wish to enforce. The state does not Ã¢â‚¬Å“failÃ¢â‚¬Â to enforce the rest; it has no intention of enforcing them nor any desire to do so.

Anarcho-tyranny is entirely deliberate, a calculated transformation of the function of the state from one committed to protecting the law-abiding citizenry to a state that treats the law-abiding citizen as, at best, a social pathology and, at worst, an enemy. Having captured the state apparatus, the anarcho-tyrants are the real hegemonic class in contemporary society, and their function is to formulate and construct the new Ã¢â‚¬Å“cultureÃ¢â‚¬Â of the new order they envision, a culture that rejects as repressive and pathological the traditional culture and civilization.”

Were this sort of behavior present for the Founders to have noted, if would have been included in the “long train of abuses” noted in the Declaration of Independence. In fact, many of the abuses noted in that document seem eerily familiar nowadays…

Again, call your congresscritters and the White House. TRY to be polite (in spite of the fact that few politicians *spit* are due any respect at all, and their functionary shields due no more), SIGN THE PETITION and recruit your friends, aquiantances and strangers on the street to do the same. *heh*

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