Author: David

Robert Bruce Thompson, computer guru of the highest order and sometime curmudgeonly commenter on things societal offers this tidbit in an essay asserting that the U.S. ought to tax, well, essentially everyone else [heh]:

“I have it on good authority that the IRS hires as auditors only people who were rejected by the Marine Corps for being too aggressive.”

I just changed my mind about the draft. If the above is true, I’m all for drafting all IRS auditors and sending them to Iraq. Then Iran, No. Korea, France (one, only; wouldn’t want to scare Chirac to death, would we? We would? OK.), Germany… the usual suspects.

Oh, and while we’re at it, send a couple to “audit” Canada.

The narrator’s voice could quickly put viewers to sleep, were it not for the amazing footage showing US Marines in combat in Fallujah.

Check it out here.

OK, whatever you’re doing (and I know that what you’re doing is checking this blog), it’s not nearly as important as CLICK-ing on THIS link and reading The Greatest Boy Detective in the Universe, Encyclopedia Brown and The Case of the Misbegotten Memos.

STOP reading this blog NOW and just GO!

The “official” caption for the pic is below it, but I thought it more fitting to label it as a typical member of the Loony Left Moonbat academia…

TEL AVIV, Israel — Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque walks at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv. The young monkey began recently walking exclusively on her hind legs after a stomach ailment nearly killed her, zookeepers said. (07/20/04 AP photo)

Just a wee tad on the curmudgeonly side. And why not? As our society tends ever more toward subliterate, self-made morons—products of Prisons for Kids (known disingenuously as “Public Schools”) and American pop “culture”—why not become a wee tad curmudgeonly? It’s difficult enough trying to communicate with people who actually speak, read and write English with a moderate degree of understanding. Communication with those who cannot (because of their own laziness and crappy “public education”–so-called) is a burden no reasonable person ought to be expected to bear without protest.

Western Civilization is going over a precipice. And it’s getting a big shove from all those who ought to be fighting to preserve it: academia, our rulers in the political class, mass media… churches.

While I’m not so concerned about my own passing from the scene (what? heaven couldn’t be any worse! :-), I think Dylan Thomas’

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light…. ”

…certainly should be applied to Western Civ.

For further reference to the conspiracy to murder literacy—indeed, to murder sense and sensibility—see Holly Lisle’s discourse on “How to Write Suckitudinous Fiction”. It describes much of the idiocy in academia and “the arts” we have inherited from 20th century dolts, dummies and doofuses in, well, the arts and academia. Of course, their subliterate cousins in the Mass Media Podpeoples’ Army also do everything they can to Make and Keep Americans Stupid(TM).

Meanwhile, I want you to think of the picture above and marvel at a monkey walking upright, every time you hear/see some Loony Left Moonbat in academia. It’s good for your sanity.

It doesn’t have quite the ring of the lullaby Algore said his mom used to sing him to sleep by (sad thing: a grown man having to be sung to sleep by his mom—the song was written in 1975).

Soon, any IBM PC you buy will likely have been made by slave labor in China. See:

IBM and China-based Lenovo Group announced an agreement
Tuesday night in which Big Blue will sell its PC division
for about $1.75 billion. Read more about this deal.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1396-2-79-246460-154698-0-0-0-1

Rabbit Trail #1: Of course, most of what you buy, apart from food, at WallyWorld is now likely made by slave labor in China. In fact, if WallyWorld were a country, it would be communist China’s 4th-largest trading partner. (Hmmm… I have heard the phrase “Wal-Mart country” bandied about… )

Yeh, it’s in my own economic interest to buy much of what we need from WallyWorld (and every time I write that I think of the National Lampoons’ Griswolds on their family vacation). I have tried to buy “non-WallyWorld” brands made in the USA when possible, though. (Like a recent paint purchase where I had the option of getting some paint for a couple of bucks less with the same tint but in a WallyWorld brand… yeh, it may have been sorta “Made in America” but it was still a WallyWorld brand.)

Rabbit trail #2: Interesting thing: we bought a nice dining set from Aldis, recently. (From Aldi’s?!?!?! Yes. Was advertised and we checked it out. Nice.) Really well-made. Nice real birch. From Romania. Not slave labor in China. A country that is trying to seriously transition to democracy and capitalism. Good quality workmanship, nice bonuses in the packing materials (?!?). Aldi’s is giving WallyWorld such headaches in Europe that I’m seriously considering shopping there more often. [heh]

Anyway, look for the Slave Labor label on any future PC purchases of IBM PCs, and, of course, expect the Slave Labor label to be prominently featured (“Made in China”) on products bought at WallyWorld.

Stop wasting time here and go to the Physic Geek’s Christmas Info Memo

What?!?! Still here? Go!

[mild warning: in other Christmas humor posts, the Physic Geek’s pages become mildly vulgar. If that’s an area of weakness for ya, skip those.]

I’ve noticed whenever I get trapped listening to some Mass Media Podperson or Loony Left Moonbat that they pronounce the initial-abbreviation of the United Nations in two syllables as something like “You In”. And even stranger still, I’ve noticed that many real people have been negatively influenced by this to pronounce it similarly.

Sad. “UN” really ought to be pronounced in one syllable as something like “uhn,” as in UNrealistic, UNethical, UNprincipled (as in DIShonorable), etc. It’s a pronunciation that’s more in line with the UN’s apparent mission, and besides, it takes less breath to say than “You In”. Why waste any more breath on the UN than one has to?

Better: perhaps it’s time for US to pronounce UN “You, Out”.

Over at the U.S.S.Neverdock blog, Marc points to this article about Chicago’s murder rate (mostly gang murders) by Annie Sweeney at the Chicago Sun-Times and draws an interesting comparison to American casualty figures in Iraq..

It seems Chicago now expects to end 2004 with 418 murders, down from 599 in 2003.

Hmmm… to restate Marc’s thesis a little, maybe someone should point out to Mayor Daley that with all the violence, Chicago’s not ready for Democracy… (But then of course he knows that… and depends upon it.) Then again, maybe it’s time for Mayor Daley to pull out of Chicago and let the “insurgents” have their way.

I can’t make up stuff like this.

“Police: Dealers Report Stolen Marijuana To Authorities”

CALLAWAY, Fla. — Help, police, someone stole my pot!

A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were going to later sell it.

More at the linked story.

I bet Dougie and Misty Ann were model “students” in their local Government Institutions of Child Incarceration (AKA Public Schools)…

I ran onto this lil story from The Denver Post in Michelle Malkin’s blog. Seems the city had banned all religious displays from the “Parade of Lights” (formerly Christmas parade). Some 1,000 folks protested the ban by gathering before the parade to sing hymns, etc.

Steve Schweitzberger carried a basket with a tiny baby Jesus doll inside that had a paper teardrop falling from its eye.

The baby came with a sign that read, “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to.”

Schweitzberger said he thought the display was appropriate considering religious groups were not allowed to participate in the downtown Parade of Lights this weekend.

“I thought it was strange that they would exclude the birthday boy from his own party,” Schweitzberger said. “Everybody knows that Christmas is not spelled with an X.”

Sounds cute, eh? Cute and oh, so wrong. Baby in the basket with a paper “tear”—tacky. “Birthday boy”—his own (unintentional, unconscious?) way of belittling the Incarnation? And what’s with the silly, “Everybody knows that Christmas is not spelled with an X.”? Sure, the illiterati may think that the “X” in Xmas is the 24th letter of the English alphabet (if they can count that far). Anyone who’s not a subliterate bufoon knows, though, that in Xmas, the X is the Greek letter “chi” and the first letter in Christ, as spelled in Greek. It’s how we get the fish symbol for Christian, for heaven’s sake! (The first letters in the phrase, Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior were arranged to depict a fish.) So, even First Century Christians were using th X to symbolize Christ.

Ya know, it’s subliterates like Schweitzberger who uphold the image of Christians as illiterate redneck goofs.

“Everybody knows that Christmas is not spelled with an X”? Well, I’m glad I’m not “everybody” then.