Author: David

[N.B. “anarcho-tyranny” is a term coined (as far as I know) by Jerry Pournelle meaning “using massive quantities of regulations to effectively eliminate the rule of law, by leaving everyone fearful that they’ll do something to bring the government down upon them. When everyone is already a criminal, government can do as it wishes, and find some basis to act against any of the criminals (i.e citizens) who are dumb enough ruin their lives by resisting.” _1_]

Yep. The link above is to a gummint site hosted pdf of an actual bill (H.R. 1279) sent from the House to the Senate. It’s as badly-written as the RICO statutes were. Just more excuses for feeb prosecutors to be able to “get” anyone they want, a la Martha Stewart. This one just enables a feeb prosecutor to nail darned near anyone they want to who has defended themselves and their family via use of a firearm.

Don’t believe me. Go read the whole thing and see what this bill aimed at “gang crime” could do in the hands of a prosecutor who would seek conviction of someone (Martha) for denying she had committed a crime… that was not a crime to begin with. (Yeh, the Martha case taught us all two lessons: they’ll get you if they want you and NEVER talk to the feebs. Never.)

BTW, how bad are the RICO laws this bill is patterned after? Out of tons of stories of abuses of RICO, here’s the bones of one I know personally. Imagine a family who moves 500 miles to a different state, builds a home and settles into a community. They don’t sell their previous home, but instead they contract with a management company to lease it to tenants.

A couple of years pass. They recieve peremptory notice from the feebs that their rental property has been siezed under RICO provisions cos some renters were using it for RICO-prohibited activities. They lost their property. Period. Also all the $$ they spent to stay out of prison themselves because the management company they had contracted with had rented ONE property (theirs) to some people who ran afoul of RICO statues.

Multiply that by all the other similar properties seized and innocent families persecuted by turf-building RICO feebs and then imagine how similar “gang-related” definitions can also be twisted against legitimate activities and associations.

There goes yet another piece of the First Amendment. And darned near the entire Second Amendment. The Fifth has been eviscerated by Kelo. We are well into a society, now, where “rights” are no longer rights inherent in The People but licenses which the government can strip, modify or simply deny at will.

We’re getting very close to needing a Tea Party. *sigh* (And I don’t really like tea all that much… )

hat tip to Cao for the lead on this.

Who really benefits from taxing business/corporation income?

At least, that’s how I read Messysoft’s latest as reported in this article.

“In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can, and we will add the critical most-requested features from the standards as well.” —Internet Explorer lead program manager Chris Wilson

A new twist on the old saw, “There’s a right way, a wrong way and the Microsoft way.” Cluebat to Wilson and his team: “fixing the worst bugs” (and leaving the rest) is NOT going to make Internet ExploDer fully web-compliant–or even fully CSS2 compliant (the point of the article).

I do still use IE to check web pages in every now and then. Fully standards-compliant pages always display best in browsers other than Internet Exploder.

Which is one reason (of many) the title bar in my copies of Internet ExploDer reads,

“Internet exploder: the world’s crappiest browser.”

Internet ExploDer. *sigh* I’d rather even be trapped using the clunky Opera-wannabe Firefox than M$’s crappy browser.

And just how important in a supposedly democratic republic is honesty and transparency in our political leaders, news media and public advocacy groups?

[NOTE: this is a combo post. Stop the ACLU/Free John Kerry’s records—both are subsumed in the content of this post.]

I would submit that honesty is an essential criterion for political leaders in a democratically republican nation. When one expects political leaders to have only one trustworthy statement in their repertoire (“Everything I tell you is suspect, if not an outright lie.”), then democratic rule of a republic is dead.

Oops. Did I just imply that democratic rule of the U.S. is dead? Well, yes. And if not dead, at least moribund.

Of course, honesty among reporters of news of importance to forming public policy is equally important. And I think it’s obvious we don’t have a preponderance of honest reporting among the Mass Media Podpeople. (For those who do not believe that, let me refer you to a good mortuary. Your embalming procedure is overdue.)

And honesty in public advocacy groups? NOW? the ACLU? CAIR? (Just to name a few of the most egregious group liars… )

No, the public forum is littered with the effluvia of dishonest discourse.

And what of transparency? Hugh Hewitt commented recently, concerning a WAPO reporter who requested, then declined to hold an interview with him after he simply requested that it be held live, on air on his show (for purposes of getting the FULL interview on record, not a twisted, excerpted portion),

“…she declined to conduct the interview she requested. How interesting to note that the Post is willing to use sources that insist on anonymity, but not sources that demand transparency.”

And what of Helen Thomas’ recent declaration that she would kill herself if Dick Cheney ran for President? You know, Thomas the Termagant, who insists that she can twist anything any politician she does not like any darned way she wants? heh

“I’ll never talk to a reporter again!” Thomas was overheard saying…

“Nobody has thinner skin than reporters,” Eisele [who reported Thomas’ suicide remark] said with a laugh. _1_

Yeh, Helen. Riiiight. It’s all fair game unless YOU are the subject of a news report.

Sauce for the goose.

But the same ought to go for any person or group that puts themselves in the position of attempting to affect public policy. Everything they say that at all relates to their positions, attitudes, actions and views as expressed in relation to their advocacy (politicians, Mass Media Podpeople, soi disant “public interest groups”—and even bloggers like me) is fair game for accurate quotation, commentary and review.

Or ought to be.

Politicians (OK, usually Liberalist—not authentically Liberal) often scream Foul! when confronted with their actual words or behaviors, accurately tossed back into their laps to deal with.

(BTW, John Fraud Kerry, where are your full and complete military records? They have yet to be released to the public.)

Newsies are the same, apparently.

And no one at the ACLU, CAIR or NOW are interested in having the public genuinely aware of how they make (or use) their “sausages” are they? The ACLU doesn’t like it when folks (accurately) claim they support pedophilia and terrorism. CAIR doesn’t like it when folks point to CAIR support of Islamic jihadist terrorism (_2_ and _3_. And many NOW members just hate it whenever anyone suggests they bathe (too many references to list. heh).

See Stop the ACLU for more info about the disingenuity and obfuscation typical of that subversive organization.

And do support holding politicians’ feet to the fire by continuing to call on Jean Fraud sKerry (known to some as John F. Kerry) to actually release his full military record to the public. See Cao’s Blog for someone doing the heavy lifting on this one.

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Lovely Daughter is “in the house” for a visit, and she made some Lovely Daughter Pasta for dinner recently. Yum.

This is one of those recipes where the ingredients are “measured” by those most delicate of chef’s instruments: smell and taste.

Ingredients:

• Enough of your fav pasta for the number of folks you wanna feed. Lovely Daughter used linguine nests, which seemed just right for this. Cook pasta al dente.
• One clove of garlic per person served. (OK, I have an amount for this one. 🙂 Crushed and minced (or use a garlic press, as Lovely Daughter did).
• Enough olive oil to just cover the crushed garlic in a small bowl.
• Crushed Oregano, Rosemary, Basil, Parsley, Red Pepper and Kosher Salt to smell/taste. (Add to crushed garlic/olive oil.)
• One tomato per person, diced, or enough grape tomatoes to go around, cut in halves.

Assembly is obvious.

Serve with your fav veggies and enjoy!

(A little freshly-ground black/green/white/pink pepper could be nice. I used my own lil idiosyncratic mix of three of the four.)

Stuff to post today. Let this be a placeholder for…

A really cool page w/lotsa patriotic mp3s thanks to Romeocat at Cathouse Chat. I’ll link it when I’m at the right computer, etc. Done, now, obviously.

News from Saudi Arabia: ding dong, one-a the witches is dead. Also h.t to Cathouse Chat. (Well, he wore dresses, didn’t he?) Links and comments will be edited into this post for the Saudi deal, too. Suffice it to say, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. *sigh*

Yeh, I know the death of one cockroach isn’t a sign that the whole colony is immediately on its way to the Eternal Crematorium. But still: one in the minus column for the Wahabbist terrorist enablers can’t be all bad, can it?

And yeh, there’s more. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Gimme a break. *VBG* 🙂

[OK, OK, I’m still not getting around to it. *sigh* Maybe tomorrow will be a day of blogolicious posting. I did get a great quasi-recipe from Lovely Daughter to whip into shape for Carnival of the Recipes, so there’s one for Tuesday… Be patient. The dog days of summer have bitten early.]

Lemme catch my breath… and pump down more of The Holy Brew, eh?

OK, this is so good, I may not have to blog the rest of this week. Heck, it’s so very nearly perfect, I may have to hang up my keyboard permanently…

Recieved from Hugh H. (No, not that one; an entirely different one.) via email:

The Drugs I Need

Take one (and one ONLY) and call me in the morning. If you can. (You might just laugh your head off and so not be able to call. Better have the EMTs ready to resucitate you before viewing.)

Rightwing Nuthouse posted on this WAPO article about the devastating potential of an “Asian bird flu” pandemic. Then he posted here (on The Wide Awakes) about his original original post at Rightwing Nuthouse and asked TMH Bacon Bits‘ The MaryHunter for his “mad scientist” response.

(With me so far? ‘K)

Well, The MaryHunter hasn’t responded, yet, as far as I can tell, but here’s my take: every cloud has a silver lining. This sounds like a made-for-mad-scientist opportunity to address the global threat of Islamic jihadists.

Mad Scientist Mode: ON

I’m thinking… a new charity.

Contaminated Quail for al Qaeda?

Tainted Turtle Doves for Terrorists?

Scummy Sandpipers for Saudis?

Wicked Woodcocks for Wacko Wahabbists?

Yeh, so an Asian bird flu pandemic could be catestrophic. With a little planning, there could be a silver lining…

The possibilities seem absolutely endless…

Mad Scientist Mode: OFF

This Newsmax headline outlines McCain’s (justified) fear that Fred Thompson would make a better presidential candidate than he. (Of course Thompson would make a better president than that snake McCain)