Brother Chimp: a brilliant idea and a roundup
While my Wonder Woman was brushing my back hair this morning, we had a synergistic interchange. I realized that my back hair, while luxurious in growth, never seems to get longer. She matched that quickly to the fact that I view haircuts as an inconvenience. WOW! Hair plugs from back hair! Never have to have another haircut!
As Ron Weasley would say, “Wicked!”
Now, a brief roundup of interesting things found in the blogosphere:
R’Cat posts The Bill of NON-Rights
Thanks to the Beloved Husband, who e-mailed this to me: The following has been attributed to Lewis Napper, a self-described amateur philosopher from Mississippi who ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 2000 as a Libertarian. “We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren… “
*heh*
Alexandra probes conservative environmental principles with an essential question in Politicizing ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Acknowledging that most of us have to make a choice which camp to believe is an important start; and I stress, the emphasis is on ‘believe’ not on choice! Most of us can’t claim certain knowledge, although judging from what is written out there, you could have fooled me.
A thought-provoking read. For more on the topic, I suggest visiting Chaos Manor Musings and typing “global warming” or “climate change” in the search boxes provided.
Speaking of Jerry Pournelle’s place, here’s a piece he reproduced in mid May that I’ve been meaning to refer to before: The Fury of the Legions.
“Make haste to reassure us, I beg you, and tell us that our fellow citizens understand us, support us, and protect us as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire.
“If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware the fury of the Legions.â€
There’s more at the link, of course, and Pournelle does note problems in the provenance of the quoted material, though nothing that would blunt the seriousness of the matter.
Folks over at Diane’s Stuff are playing Dead Guy in the Sidebar #11. I’ve held up my end so far by continuing to make guesses of folks who’ve already been Dead guys in the Sidebar or Teddy Kennedy (hope springs eternal, ya know). Drop on by and play, why don’tcha?
Sam (The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns) points to THE BEST Mastercard commercial (spoof) I have seen. Put down the coffee before viewing. Maybe NSFW (depending on your workplace).
Not a blogpost (and I can’t recall offhand how I found it—if it was via your blog, let me know, OK?), but Planning ahead is considered racist? is a must-read for those who want a lil ammo in the conflict with those who pervert the truth in order to advance the destruction of Western Civilization.
Are you salting away a little money for your retirement? Trying to plan for your kids’ education? If so, Seattle Public Schools seems to think you’re a racist.
According to the district’s official Web site, “having a future time orientation” (academese for having long-term goals) is among the “aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label people of color.”
Well, there you are: being responsible is being racist. *Feh*
I can relate to Jay Tea’s analogy: Vicente Fox: The ultimate spammer, though some of the commenters seem to deliberately miss his points. No excerpt. Just read the whole thing.
I ought to have noted this one last week, well before Memorial Day. Brainster’s Blog links to Rick Monday’s 1976 dash to save the flag. (Again, I can’t recall who tipped me to Brainster’s post. If it was you, lemme know, ‘K?)
“Do Vampires Eat Hamburgers?” asks TRY. Steak tartare, Bubba Yak, steak tartare…
Angel’s Pakistani Torture of Women post is strong. The real face of Islam.
And at The Conservative Cat, ferdy posts Laura Ingraham – Andy Rooney on the Purpose of War
Well, that oughta add to your weekend reading list.
BTW, let me know what you think of my “back hair transplant” idea. I think it’s a winner. 🙂
OTPed at STACLU free-for-all
Lake Wobegon Writ Large
Office Space – Special Edition with Flair (Widescreen Edition)
Damn Interesting (which ought to be named “DamnED Interesting”—*heh*) has an, uhm, interesting post, Unskilled and Unaware of It.
“Interesting” is an extreme understatement. Quite apart from the appropriate graphic citation of Milton Waddoms (the Office Space “Swingline guy”) meme, the post serves as a reminder of the dangers of the Lake Wobegon philosophy that “all the children are above average”.
Read the post. It’s a tad longer than many, and it’s info-dense, but it’s well worth your time, IMO. It places much of what you’ll find me ranting about here at twc in context… and—surprise! surprise!—you can decide for yourself how that post relates to my posts here. *heh*
Brief précis (if I may be repetitively redundant)? OK: Most incompetent people think they are not. Not only that, incompetent people are incompetent to assess either their incompetence or the competence of others.
Who Do You Wanna Grow Up to Be?
This is designed to be the blogosphere’s shortest (as far as I know) meme pool tag game. One simple question; one simple answer:
What television sitcom character do you want to grow up to be?
OK, I’ll go first. Becker. His wit, charm and sensitive personality are my role model in life.
😉
Rules of the game:
1.) Ask and answer the question, “What television sitcom character do you want to grow up to be”? (Yeh, I know you’re asking yourself, so the rhetorical form oughta be “What… do I want to grow up to be?” but it’s my game so I’m screwing with the English language the way I want to, so there.)
2.) Tag three people.
3.) Link and track back to the post that tagged you.
4.) List and link to the three people “upline” from you: your tagger, their tagger and the person who tagged the person who tagged you.
Since this lil blogosphere meme pool tag game is so extremely simple, I’ve attempted to make the rules as convoluted as possible to make up for alla the work you DON’T have to do coming up with a post.
Why not?
First Round Tagees:
Woody of Woody’s News and Views
Diane, of Diane’s Stuff
Angel, of Woman Honor Thyself
That’s all.
Oh, if you feel left out like the last kid picked for a side in dodge ball in grade school, drop over to one of the three tagees and ask for a hit.
Well, Diane certainly waxed prolix w/this puppy, proving that “The blogosphere’s shortest meme pool tag game” can be made into one of the longest if played by a real pro. 🙂
If only… *sigh*
If only the occasional piece of satire were reality. Like this one:
*sigh* It’s be a series sweep for the U.S. Just think on it a second: Wipe out U.S. debt to China and essentially no change for The Red Coast* (save that CA would no longer be a haven for Mexican illegals—*heh*). The few hardy genuine American citizens remaining on The Red Coast* would need to be repatriated and recompensed in some way, but think on it: Hollyweird would actually become less anti-American and communist than it is now!
*Red Coast, of course, refers to the communist bent of most of California. I never could understand how so-called conservatives got tagged with the “red” label so strongly associated with communism in the 20th century. Go figure.
Ghost in the painting…
Well, not really, but Kris, over at Anywhere But Here, pointed me to a really cool video of the Mona Lisa… “speaking.”
Believe it or… don’t.
🙂
It’s for the Childrenâ„¢
Below is a retread of a post from my Blogger days. Feel free to critique, scream, rant or flame all you want.
Of the top five problems I see in “prisons for kids” (also disingenuously called “public schools”) today, every level of administration has to rank close to the top. I have been privileged to know two intelligent and capable principals. Neither are principals, now. One retired and another was promoted to his level of incompetence. The rest? Object lessons in how idiots, bullies and poltroons suck up public funds.
While I have never found the axiom “Those who can do; those who can’t teach” to be a universal truth (I know some very fine teachers), I know of only two exceptions to this axiom: “Those who can teach bust a gut to do so in the face of almost overwhelming opposition from theose who can’t teach: administrators.”
Of course, many who can teach simply leave in the face of such overwhelming opposition to teaching/learning, often leaving a sad mix of beaten down teachers and lazy (and sometimes even stupid) bums putting their time in until retirement.
*Remove remote dictates to local schools. And invite to a “tea party” then shoot (or hang, I don’t really care) the politicians and bureaucrats who attempt to insinuate themselves into local schools from afar.
*Fire (or hang, for all I care) all the administrators (and mourn for the few good ones caught in the housecleaning).
*Require responsible behavior from both students and parents (dump –“viciously” prune from the student body– students who refuse to learn. Put ’em in labor camps for all I care.)
*Sweep out the bums marking time to retirement. Buying them out would be better than letting them stay. (“Three generations of idiots is enough” *heh*)
*Burn to the ground all the colleges’ and universities’ education departments. Send the professors to labor camps to work alongside with the products of their theories.
I know this may sound a bit harsh, but It’s For the Childrenâ„¢, so surely it’d fly… All one need to is repeat the mantra over and over, It’s For the Childrenâ„¢… It’s For the Childrenâ„¢… It’s For the Childrenâ„¢…
And you know the really neat thing? Since Judge Greer has laid down the principal that severely mentally/physically handicapped people can be… capped, all that would be needed to get the ball rolling would be for a judge to declare some “school” administrators to be in a “Persistant Vegetative State” and there we are! I’m sure that after that, we’d have “education” professors lining up and begging for slots in work camps… Neat, huh?
Ranting and throwing crockery all over the place at TMH’s Bacon Bits, Woman Honor Thyself
An Earth-Shattering Solution/Weekend OTA
This is an Open Trackbacks Alliance post, open all weekend. Link to this post and track back. More below the “Earth-Shattering Solution” to a large part of the illegal immigrant invasion…
I recieved this in email. Sounds like a reasonable response to a terrible tragedy…
Just suppose…
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale hits Mexico. Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are seriously injured.
The country is totally ruined and the government doesn’t know where to start with asking for help to rebuild.
The rest of the world is in shock.
Canada sends troops to help the Mexican army control the riots.
Saudi Arabia sends oil.
Other Latin American countries send supplies.
The European community (except France) sends food and money.
The United States, not to be outdone, sends three million replacement Mexicans.
God Bless America.
(Works for me. Were I processing the “aid” request, I’d also empty a few prisons and send second and third generation welfare families… )
As I said, this is an open trackbacks post. Link to this post and track back.
Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at Linkfest Haven.
Stop the ACLU
This Stop the ACLU Blogburst guest post is from John Stephenson at Stop the ACLU.
The above banner and slogan is quite deceptive and an utter joke to those that are truly aware of the ACLU’s workings. Just in the past week the ACLU has launched a massive campaign against the NSA’s efforts to trace terrorist phone calls into the U.S. This campaign with full page ads has even been denounced by media that usually defend the ACLU as completely lacking in context. In just the last few days the ACLU has pounced at the chance to bash America, applauding the decision of an EU Court that struck down an anti-terrorism agreement that allows the European Union and the U.S. to share information on airline passengers. And in the same day the ACLU of Florida came out against a new law that restricts colleges and universities from using state funds for travel to countries classified as terrorist states by the U.S. government.
The ACLU consistently allign themselves with groups like CAIR, and other organizations that have known terrorist ties. They have turned down donations from some of their most generous donors because of anti-terrorism stipulations. They can always be seen defending our enemies. It is no wonder that they fight to exempt lawyers from anti-terror supporting oaths.
A while back, my friend Kathy wrote about how deceptive this banner is, and it still applies today.
The ongoing battle for truth, justice and the American Way
My grandfather had a favorite saying about rights and priviledges. Well, one of many.
“My rights end where your nose begins.”
More and more, folks today don’t seem to recognize their responsibility to consider the effects of their behavior on others. All most folks care about is their attachment to fake “rights” (while letting the important ones slide and ignoring the fact that rights have responsibilities attached). Heck, some folks view licenses to do things as rights. And others (particularly politicians) view rights as something to be controlled, limited and licensed (making “priviledges granted by the political elite” out of “rights” *sigh*)
OK, here are a couple of examples of one small aspect of this complex issue:
1.) This page (and the attendant video) about an SUV driver (could have been an “anything” driver—nothing special about SUVs, I suppose) whose irresponsible behavior was just flat-out dangerous. Driving is a priviledge, licensed based on a certain very limited skill, knowledge of the ruling statutes concerning driving behavior and subsequent behavior. It is not a right, but it does carry an enormous weight of responsibility. Watch the video. I’ve been in situations like the one depicted. It’s not safe, and the driver was NOT acting responsibly (yeh, and I have the—healed—broken bones to back up my assertion).
But. From the camera angle and what’s actually shown in the view filmed, the biker was riding too far to the left, as well. More than one person was pushing their license to use the highways past the edge of responsible behavior. Yeh, I know the page asserts “a little left of the fog line” but that “little left” looks to be about 2 feet, to me. Too far left for riding in traffic.
But I could be wrong.
Still, from Chapter 8, page 5 of the Missouri Drivers License Guide
“There is only one reason to use your horn: to warn other drivers.”
And,
Other equipment of motor vehicles–violations, penalty.
307.170. 1. Signaling devices: Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a horn, directed forward, or whistle in good working order, capable of emitting a sound adequate in quantity and volume to give warning of the approach of such vehicle to other users of the highway and to pedestrians. Such signaling device shall be used for warning purposes only and shall not be used for making any unnecessary noise, and no other sound-producing signaling device shall be used at any time.
Which brings up
2.) Our new “trailer park trash” neighbors.
*sigh*
If I had wanted to live around loud, drunken parties (in their front yard, no less), people honking horns outside our bedroom window at all hours of the day and night (darned near every time folks drive up there, it seems they have to honk their horns, whether there’s anyone else at the house or not*), driven-to-distortion bass booms coming from front-yard-parked trucks, easily felt as well as heard inside on the other side of our house, and all kinds of other “trailer park trash” behavior, then that’s where I’d live.
I’m putting the local cop (well, there are more than one, but there’s only one at a time on duty) on speed dial. 911 would be overkill. No more gentle warnings or remonstrations.
But why can’t folks simply stop and think: hey! There’s no one home. I don’t need to honk my horn!
Or whatever might move them to think, “My rights end where someone else’s nose begins.”
*No one home and honking the horn? I’ve had folks ask me if my new neighbors are cooking meth, suggesting perhaps it’s an “all clear” signal to someone inside. I don’t know. Sure, we get toxic fumes drifting this way from over there from time to time, but that could just be trailer park trash cuisine… *heh*