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March 28, 2007

Let me get this straight…

A real world description of insanity would include an observation that it’s insane to expect something that didn’t work when tried before to just magically start working if one tries it often enough. Kind of “If at first you don’t succeed, keep on trying the same failed process again and again and again and… ”

Example: butting one’s ehad against 300′ thick solid granite. Or, the 1986 amnesty for approximately 400,000 illegal aliens that resulted in, 20 years later, somewhere between 13,000,000 and 20,000,000 illegal aliens residing here. What part of this do congresscritters and President Bush not understand?

So, amnesty in 1986 yielded 32 to 50 times as many alien invaders as were here before that amnesty. Smart. So smart that, hey! let’s do it again! Not only that, but let’s give the alien invaders every crack at destroying our society that we can. Along with news out of Texas that the feds in the U.S. Attorney’s office have instituted a “six strikes and we’ll consider thinking about contemplating throwing your ass back home where you belong” policy with illegal aliens, comes the confluence of being easy on drunk drivers and the apparent “six strikes and a warning” policy:

Before being charged with killing a Porter woman and her pregnant daughter in a crash Sunday, Ignacio Gomez-Gutierrez had been convicted three times for drunken driving in Harris County, court records show.

His third DWI arrest, which would normally become a felony, was reduced to a misdemeanor, a move the mayor’s crime victims advocate calls a “pivotal moment” that ultimately led to the deaths of Maria Ortiz, 49, and her 18-year-old daughter, Vanessa, who was five months pregnant.

Records also show Gomez-Gutierrez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was never deported after serving his time in jail in 2002, 2004 and 2005. [emphasis added]

You’ll note that the article from the Houston Chronicle (h.t. Diane of The Trouble With Angels) has the wrong title, “Suspect in fatal crash had 3 DWI convictions” instead of the more accurate, “Illegal Alien Kills Three with the Aid of the Criminal Justice System and the United States Government (Thank you Mr. Bush!)” And the “pivotal moment” that led to the deaths was NOT when the third DWI was reduced to a misdemeanor. No, it was when his FIRST brush with the law didn’t result in his body (in whatever condition) being thrown over the Rio Grande, back where he belonged. THAT was the pivotal moment when the state of Texas and the feddle gummint both failed to protect those they are supposed to serve. And those who failed, at every step along the way, to kick this murderer-waiting-on-opportunity (that’s what drunk drivers are, you know; just awaiting the chance to kill you or someone else) back to his home for HIS government to deal with should recieve the same punishment he does, no matter what that may be.

Including being kicked out of the country. “Bye, bye, now! Y’all don’t come back.”

Just another data point in the “Let’s flush America down the toilet” program of our various governments… Anarcho-tyranny example number 1,254,892…

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March 28, 2007March 28, 2007

Wednesday OTA/What’s in a name?

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What’s in a name?

Followers of Mohammed are often called Mohammedans, because they claim to follow the teachings and example of Mohammed. Followers of Jesus usually call themselves Christians, because he was proclaimed by his followers to be the annointed one, the Christ. Both names label those who wear them as claming to follow, to emulate the one whose name they wear. Now, obviously, anyone who’s a part of a Western society and who has any knowledge of the New Testament teachings of Christ and about him will have a decent chance of spotting those who claim to be Christians but are not, simply by comparing their lives to the life and teachings of the founder of Christianity–and indeed, we can examine the lives of men throughout history who claimed to follow Christ but who plainly seemed to be liars. Abbot Arnaud stands as an historical example of one who claimed to follow Christ but showed no Christlike mercy when he commanded the Cathars of Bezier slain (and not just the Cathars, recall his famous words: “Kill them all; God will know his own.”) in 1209.

So, too, with Muslims (or Mohammedans). But discerning “honest” Muslims from those who are not true followers of Mohammed can be more difficult for one very important reason: true Muslims have no problem lying to or decieving those who are not believers in their cult. In fact, deception and lies are specifically taught by both the words and deeds of Mohammed, so how to tell when one is dealing with a true Mohammedan or not can be a tricky proposition. It’s safer to assume that anyone claiming to be a follower of Mohammed is what they say they are, regardless of what we can see of their actions.

Of course, if someone is openly emulating the life and teachings of Mohammed, then such a determination is quite easy, isn’t it? After all, where Jesus taught his disciples that self-sacrifice in service to others–including one’s enemies–was a positive good, and then demonstrated it in the crucifixion, Mohammed taught and demonstrated the exact opposite. Mohammed’s teachings and life are a seamless cloth of sacrificing others to satisfy his gluttony, his sexual perversion and his desire for power.

Muhammad was married to eleven women at one time, relegating them to either consecutive days or (according to some accounts) all in one night. He married a 9-year-old girl and even his adopted son’s wife. On top of that he had a multitude of slave girls and concubines with whom he had sex – sometimes on the very days in which they had watched their husbands and fathers die at the hands of Muhammad’s armies. [emphasis added]

The contrasts between Mohammed and Jesus are many, and in fact, you can just about take every single solitary virtue evidenced in the life of the Nazarene and find its opposite vice evidenced in the life of Mohammed.

And so might you know their respective followers. Sure, there may be some disciples of Mohammed who are not murdering rapists, thieving thugs and liars, but they’d be very poor Muslims to scorn the xlear example of the founder of their religion. And yes, it’s easy to find people claiming to be Christians who have not the slightest scruple that they in no way emulate or follow the life and teachings of the founder of Christianity.

Such faux “Christians” who have not one whit of shame for their lying claims would make good Muslims, don’t you think?

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March 27, 2007March 13, 2008

Listing to Starboard IV

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Hugh sent me a link (to a link–*heh*) that led to…

Death by Re-creation

In 1991, a 57-year-old Thai woman Yooket Paen was walking in her farm when she accidentally slipped on a cow dung, grabbed a naked live wire and got electrocuted to death.

Soon after Paen’s funeral, her 52-year-old-sister Yooket Pan was showing her neighbors how the accident happened when she herself slipped, grabbed the same live wire and also got electrocuted to death!

It seems our congresscritters and president are bent on emmulating Yooket Pan. The 1986 amnesty for about 400,000 illegal aliens led to 13-20,000,000 illegal aliens today. So, what do they expect giving those millions of illegal aliens amnesty will elad to, eh? Be sure to catch that live wire as you slip, Mr. President… *sigh*

…look at the question: what is the real jihad, the jihad of inner, spiritual struggle or the jihad of war? Let’s turn to Bukhari (the Hadith) for the answer, as he repeatedly speaks of jihad. In Bukhari 97% of the jihad references are about war and 3% are about the inner struggle. So the statistical answer is that jihad is 97% war and 3% inner struggle. Is jihad war? Yes–97%. Is jihad inner struggle? Yes–3%.–Bill Warner

I’ve been meaning to post about why lying, cheating, stealing and barbarous murders are moral acts to Muslims, but this (moderately long) interview with Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, at Frontpage Magazine does the job pretty well. Warner doesn’t say it, but the rock bottom takeaway for me is that Islam is crazy. Nutso. Insane. Oh, and evil, too.

Clinton fired 93 U.S. attorneys. No one really noticed at the time. *yawn* No news there, move along. As everyone, his dog and the dog’s fleas knows by now, Bush has let 8 U.S. attorneys escape into the wild. Horrors! And now congresscritters are all a-twitter. And some admin folks–mindful of the railroading of Scooter Libby, no doubt–are saying they’ll not “testify” before a panel of twittering congresscritters! The perfidy! *double yawn*

Oh, BTW, Clinton has said he won’t either. But since his testimony was solicited concerning another issue the Democraps really, really don’t want made much of (presidential pardons on his watch), expect this refusal to attend congresstwitters to go largely unreported by the Mass Media Podpeople’s Hivemind. *heh*

“…the more time that children spent in child care, the more likely their sixth grade teachers were to report problem behavior.”

Well, duh. Fox News.

And even the New York Slimes reports on the study,

A much-anticipated report from the largest and longest-running study of American child care has found that keeping a preschooler in a day care center for a year or more increased the likelihood that the child would become disruptive in class — and that the effect persisted through the sixth grade.

Brave New World.

Oh, and those TSA watch lists?

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said last year that his wife had been delayed repeatedly while airlines queried whether Catherine Stevens was the watch-listed Cat Stevens.

Ordung! That’s the problem with employing stupid people to be TSA goons: they don’t even know enough to know that they need to know more to do their jobs UNstupidly. And (even) “When a stupid man does something he knows is wrong, he always claims it is his duty.”

*sigh* Just more anarcho-tyranny, courtesy of our feddle gummint’s “How to Turn Citizens into Compliant Sheeple Subjects” program.

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March 24, 2007March 26, 2007

The Eyes Have It

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When it comes to computer displays, beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. I prefer CRTs over LCD screens for many reasons. Sure, I hate their bulk and weight and power requirements, but I’ve yet to see a LCD computer display that can give the kind of clear, crisp display of even low end CRTs. I set my refresh rates higher than their usual defaults (but still well within the monitor’s specs) and eliminate darned near all flicker, adjust color temps, keystoning, etc., and am pretty darned happy with the way my monitors treat my eyes.

So, when I was “bequeathed” a monitor recently (from a retired system) that was much larger than I usually use on my desk (real, physical) desktop, of course I plugged the sucker in to give it a whirl.

Nice–really nice–display, but I noticed something right away that gives me pause. My other monitors are “flat” CRT monitors. The actual screens are as flat as LCD screens, and the wonky curving and bending of straight lines that were the bane of older CRTs for years were never evident. This one, while yielding a lovely display, beautiful color values, great range of resolutions, has the older curved screen and no amount of tweaking and adjusting will eliminate the curves showing up, if only in the corners of the screen.

*sigh*

Oh, well, for all the other nice things (including letting me re-use a high-end BNC-connector cable I kept off a flat-screen IBM/NEC CRT that died), I guess I will live with it for a while on this computer. But I may well move it over to a fake Mac I want to “build” using Intel hardware and PC-BSD (well, the Mac OS X is just BSD with the Apple GUI front end), which has a really, really slick GUI and the best package installation process I’ve seen in an alternate OS. Besides, using a PC-BSD will give me what’s arguably the best of both PC and Mac worlds, and I can say to friends with their iMacs, “Oh, you’re using that proprietary straightjacket version of BSD?” *LOL*

Meanwhile, this monitor produces some of the crispest text I’ve seen, especially when I magnify a web page. Wow! Nice! Yeh, I guess now I can bump monitors down the line for a while.

March 24, 2007March 24, 2007

False Religion Untainted with Truth

Combatting false religions is a tricky task, but one false religion is both an easy target… and devilishly difficult to combat. One the one hand, it’s a phenominally easy target, because all its tenets are based on easily falsifiable lies. On the other hand, it is fiendishly hard to combat, because the Mass Media Podpeople’s Hivemind is its most ardent “believer” and because politicians *spit* are prime examples–as a class–of self-lobotomized idiots.

Of the many rational voices–and there are many–of people attempting to combat the evil (yes, “evil”–because its architects and chief priests and accolytes all know it is a lie, and the useful idiots who preach its teachings are all self-made idiots, wittingly turning a blind eye to the truth, even openly persecuting those who wish simply to discuss the facts) religion of Anthropocentric Global Warming, Orson Scott Card has done Truth a great service by succinctly summing up the case against AGW in All in a Good Cause

What matters right here and now is that it is time for the world’s scientists to apostatize from the Church of Global Warming. It is a false religion. It is based on lies, and its leading prophets know that it is because they’re the ones faking the data or stretching it to ridiculous lengths to pretend that the real world hasn’t already ruled against their claims.

Of course, real scientists are already doing all they can to right the lies of the Church of Anthropocentric Global warming, but because the reins of grant monies and publication are, for the most part, held by the cultists, real scientists are excoriated as heretics and shut out. what is needed is for those who are faking their data and cooking the books with their “experimental” procedures to repent their scientific sins and come clean with their colleagues and the world at large.

But I see a snowball’s chance in hell of that happening any time soon.

But, barring the unlikiely event of the chief priests and accolytes of the Church of Anthropocentric Global Warming repenting their many sins, it is left to those of us who see their evil for what it is to, like Card, speak the truth at every turn, to every person we can, hoping to stem their attempt to hasten the fall of night.