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From Jerry Pournelle… of course. 🙂

In response to a comment “from the symposium” as it were (his email correspondants):

“Our Cultural Weapons of Mass Destruction will indeed bring down militant Islam; but what they do to us first is a matter of concern. If our schools were what they were when I was young I would not be so concerned. A republic needs citizens with a certain level of understanding, and salable skills so they depend on themselves and not the government. Is the trend in that direction now? I wish I had more cheerful news. But it is not yet too late.”

In. Deed.

But N.Z. Bear calls them SPAM… (Does N.Z. Bear know what SPAM is?)

Don Surber has the poop. (Yes, I said “poop” and I meant “poop”. Ya wanna make something of it? 🙂

Track yourself right on back to THIS post, ‘K?

hat tip to Stop the ACLU and a tip o’ the hat to Mr. Big at The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Hey, folks! Did you know that Technoratti counts ALL your links? And it has analogs to the N.Z. Bear “communities” and more info about who’s linking to you than you can shake a stick at. Tried Technoratti tags? Easy as pie, and useful, too. TTLB doesn’t “do” Technoratti-style tags.

I wonder how N.Z. Bear would rank in his own ecosystem if everyone took the TTLB script and links off their pages? heh Who really links his posts, anyway?

Just thinkin’ out loud, here…

🙂

Wants to call legitimate posts “spam”? Maybe this will get around his “spam” filters:

Meanwhile, at Stop the ACLU, NZ Bear Killing the Trac*k*back Parties
“Looks like NZ Bear wants to dampen the fun. Don Surber has the details. “

Big Dog’s Weblog says, No Slack For Trac*k*back Open Trac*k*back Party
“Looks like NZ Bear at TTLB has decided that he will filter out tra*ckb*acks so that the links will not count as part of the ecosystem statistics.”

Diane’s stuff is Hosting Wednesday Weekly Open Tra*ckb*ack Alliance Fest, anyway.“There are other Alliance members holding open tra*ckb*ack posts today, you can find them listed on the blogroll as well.”

The Tra*ckb*ack Parties Will Continue “Don Surber has word that Truth Laid Bear is going to start cracking down on Open Trackback parties and not counting those links towards the TLLB ecosystem standings,” according to Adam.

Technorati : Open Trackbacks, SPAM, The Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem

Yeh, yeh: big stinking deal.

I think perhaps I under-react. heh Don Surber has some interesting observations. (I commented with a conflation of two memes. heh. Mind like a steel trap. Rusted a bit… )

Conservative Cat has typically apt comment and points to a few others’ posts, as well.

Dan Riehl hasthe best-possibly the definitive-roundup of comments and resources I’ve seen. Plan on spending some time clicking through and absorbing the thoughts of others.

My take (unscrambling the conflated memes)? OSM~great plan for making $$:

* Step one: Steal underpants
* Step two: ????????????
* Step three: Profit.

OK, maybe it’s a tad more involved. From all indications so far, step 2 apparently involves lots of infighting, appropriating someone else’s registered “trademark” (or “service mark”) and all other kindsa sophomoric stunts.

It’s the wave of the future, kiddies.

Linked at TMH’s Bacon Bits, The Busniess of America is Business

I haven’t featured a “snark for today” post in a while.

James Lileks Screedblog post yesterday is just toooo inspiring to neglect, though… hop on over and spike his bandwidth usage. Here’s a sample:

I never “got into” Vonnegut, or “dug” his work like my “buds,” several of whom pronounced his work as “intense,” so I am not particularly bothered to find he applauds suicide bombers, and thinks they experience “an amazing high.” In the literal sense, perhaps; it’s possible that skull fragments may reach the third floor before they carom off a balcony and patter back to earth.

“…it’s possible that skull fragments may reach the third floor before they carom off a balcony and patter back to earth…”

Well, since I share his view of Vonnegut (James Joyce Lite, as I was wont to label him in my long ago college days), this has me grinning already. And that’s just his leadoff pitch.

Pure gold. Hit it now.

Linked at: Outside the Beltway, Jo’s Cafe, Basil’s Picnic Lunch, bRight and Early

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Further discussion of IE/TWC issues and progress toward accomodating folks who like using the least secure, non-standards-compliant browser here.

Actually, MIA could be overstating the case. Haven’t seen any real action on this one, yet!

What we know:

John Kerry’s service in Vietnam lasted 4 months and 12 days, beginning in November 1968 when he reported to Cam Ranh Bay for a month of training. His abbreviated combat tour ended shortly after he requested a transfer out of Vietnam on March 17, 1969, citing Navy instruction 1300.39 permitting personnel with three Purple Hearts to request reassignment. So far as we are able to determine, Kerry was the only Swift sailor ever to leave Vietnam without completing the standard one-year tour of duty, other than those who were seriously wounded or killed.

It is clear that at least one of Kerry’s Purple Heart awards was the result of his own negligence, not enemy fire, and that Kerry went to unusual lengths to obtain the award after being turned down by his own commanding officer. _1_

And of course, there are Kerry’s post Vietnam activities that are a matter of public record, including his attendance (disputed by him, but confirmed by FBI reports and eyewitnesses) at a VVAW meeting that discussed assassination of American political figures, consorting with the enemy during time of war and his infamous slander of those he left behind in Vietnam before the Senate select committee.

What we do not have yet is information that fills in the holes and gaps in his service record:

Constructing a complete picture of Kerry’s service is difficult due to gaps in the Naval records provided by the Kerry campaign. These gaps include missing and incomplete fitness reports, missing medical records and missing records related to his medal awards._1_

Supposedly, the Boston Globe, the LA Times and Kerry’s biographer have the complete records, but they aren’t releasing them.

Why?

From Cao’s Blog:

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Join the blogbursts to help FREE Kerry’s 180 every Tuesday!

We’ve formed a blogburst group and here are the bloggers who are contributing so far. If you want to join the blogroll for Free Kerry’s 180, click here to email me, include the url for your blog. The blogburst is every Tuesday, so don’t forget to blog about it. All you have to do is encourage Kerry to set his 180 FREE, I’ll send you the code for the blogroll.

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Linked at Cao’s, Adam’s Blog, Those Bastards!, TMH’s Bacon Bits, The Political Teen, Don Surber, Choose Life!, Euphoric Reality, MacStansbury, Right Wing Nation, Committees of Correspondence, NIF, Stop the ACLU, Is It just Me?

Open post. You know the drill. If not, check the foot of this post.

Fred, again. *sigh* Man, when will you ever learn: a prophet is not loved in his own country? Oh. That’s why you live south of the border, now. Good thing, cos that’s probably the only thing keeping you safe from the object of this article. heh(Thanks, Hugh, for the reminder to check Fred’s site.)

Woody (Woody’s News and Views) does good blog on a regular basis. I semi-featured this post late yesterday, but it needs to be brought “above the fold” as it were: Chris Matthews, Dhimmi Of The Week, at Woody’s News and Views.

Another snippet from Jerry Pournelle’s site, this time from his hand,

“Frances Fukuyama thought that with the fall of the USSR we had reached The End of History, and all that was left was to chronicle the spread and consolidation of liberal democracy — even as liberal democracy was collapsing in the United States, becoming a persecuting religion in the schools and universities, and thus losing its soul. Once liberals read John Stuart Mill and loved freedom. N0w they read Rawls (actually at two generations removed; Rawls is well nigh unreadable by those unconvinced) and deny tenure to anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the politically correct version of events.”

Do take the time to read it all. It’s a response to an email correspondent in yesterday’s Chaos Manor Mail. (Note: Pournelle’s “Day Book” format is arranged exactly opposite of most blogs, so paging DOWN brings current info into view.)

If you have not yet read The English Guy’s post here yesterday, stop, CLICK HERE and read. Click to sign the petition if you care about national security.

I hope you didn’t miss this trackback to Clark Mountain Musings, yesterday. I disagree with the post in only one regard: I think the situation is humorous, even if it isn’t belly-laugh funny. heh. Oh, irony, thy personification is French… Clark Mountain Musings is new to me yesterday (found ’em in my open trackbacks, folks), and I’m already a tad upset with the blog cos I have only so many hours in a day, and even speedreading via a broadband connection isn’t enough to let me keep track of all the good reads! And here’s another one! *sheesh!* 🙂

Kender Learns to Love Me 😉 *ducking*

Well, I’ll add more later, I’m sure, but now, on to…

OK, adding this lil random piece of fun: Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol. Haven’t seen this one in a while? Get one-a yer own! This one’s mine! 🙂

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OPEN TRACKBACKS!

Today is an Open Post Day, all day. In fact, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays (Friday’s post open all weekend) are Open Trackback Post days.

Open Post info: Edit a post (or posts 🙂 of your own that you want to have featured here to include a link to this post. Trackback to my trackback URI (just right-click on “trackback” at the foot of this post and select “copy link” or “copy link location”–however your browser indicates). If your blog software can’t send trackback pings you can use Wizbang’s Standalone Trackback Pinger. If you have trouble, please leave a comment. I’ll try to help. Be sure to reference the Open Trackback Alliance blogroll and the Open Trackback Provider blogroll in my left sidebar. The more you play, the more folks will see your posts!

Linked at: Adam’s Blog, Those Bastards!, TMH’s Bacon Bits, The Political Teen, Don Surber, Choose Life!, Euphoric Reality, MacStansbury, Right Wing Nation, Committees of Correspondence, NIF, Stop the ACLU, Is it Just Me?

So what should I think? I post every week about the Anti-Civilization Libertine Union and do all I can in support of Stop the ACLU. But when I host an open trackback post, who does Kender put on his list of Open Trackback Parties at the Stop the ACLU site?

Everybody but me.

Kender hates me. I guess that put me on the side of the angels.

heh

😉

(One of the voices in my head that blogs at a site that uncovers deep, dark conspiracies clued me in on this one… )

OK, Kender, Jay, cut it out, already! I haven’t had so many comments so fast in a looooong time. Leave some electrons for the WinXP fishies. (Kender: Gee, guess some guys can’t see tongue-in-cheeck when they’re on cold meds… 😉 Jay: not your fault. I always blame Kender. Just cos Kender likes it. *LOL*)

The English Guy posted his innaugural third world county post just a short while ago. Be sure to read A Border is…. You’ll want to read more of The English Guy‘s work, so just CLICK on his name in this post and go to one of his blogs, the eponymous The English Guy, of course!

After stopping in there to browse a bit, check out What’s Hot! (also another English Guy production) for cool new things and Balanced News Blog for Right-Left and Middle of the Road news-appropriately labeled so there are no games with the presentation.

I look forward to more as he drops in from time to time, when his busy schedule allows.

Thanks, man! Great article!

Linked at Don Surber, NIF, MacStansbury, Right Wing Nation, Thanksgiving Week Open Trackbacks at Choose Life! (Note that one, folks-looks like someone may be taking aim at NIF’s attempted Mongous Trackback Post. heh), Blogin’ Outloud

[Update: edited an amphibolous sentence]

Read the post below this by new blog member The English Guy for the other “most important” piece of the day!

I’ve written about this concept before, but puts it in a whole new light in his article, The real secret to defeating radical Islam.

“There’s a funny thing about appeasement. It’s hard to give in to evil without first agreeing with that evil, at least a little.”

Put down whatever else you were doing and read that statement in context. Read the whole thing.

BTW, apologies for not crediting whomever I caught this reference from… scanning quickly through my RSS feeds and caught this, opened it in a background tab for later reading and forgot where I saw it originally. *sigh* Too many good blogs; only so much time…

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