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cui bono?

So, Joe “haven’t had a thought of my own for 50 years” Biden wants to close down Gitmo…

And exactly who will that benefit? Move the detainees somewhere else and things will change for the better how? Well, let’s see… Biden (and his ilk) acting as Osama bin Laden’s cat’s-paw scores yet another big propaganda coup for al Qaeda and other Islamic jihadists. The bad guys now in custody get rewarded for misbehavior (including attacking guards, lying about mistreatment, etc.) and ever more pressure is brought to bear upon the U.S. to just give in and commit suicide in the face of overwhelming opposition to her survival as a Western nation.
And Biden, acting as OBL’s hand puppet gets his ego stroked by Mass Media Podpeople who view the demise of truth and justice as simply a plus in their attempts to up their ratings.
h.t. Blonde Sagacity for the link to the Biden article.
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“Deep Throat” reflux

Yeh, I almost typed “redux” but this thing is starting to sound more like a regurgitation of the (in)famous “Linda Lovelace” movie all the time…

In an article in the California Press Democrat, Felt family members reveal that money was a motive in revealing “Deep Throat’s” identity.
Well, knock me over with a feather! Really? Gee. Who woulda thunk it?
*yawn*
h.t. Drudge (as though it’s important. I mean, who thought it wasn’t “a motive”? Anyone?)
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heh

Been reading a lot of eBooks… maybe too many

Why would I say “maybe too many”?

Let me set the scene. Of the computers here, I have this one, the one I do most of my surfing, blogging, etc., on, set up as a kinda “cocoon.” Comfy chair, wireless keyboard, three different pointing devices (cuts down on carpal tunnel, suited to different uses, etc.), one on a lil side table at just the right height to serve as an extended arm rest when I’m semi-reclining in the chair.

OK, I’m sitting, reading a book book (you know, one of those strange things on paper? :-), letting a Beethoven violin concerto kinda wash over me and I reach the bottom of a page. I find myself momentarily flummoxed when the scroll wheel on the mouse my hands resting on doesn’t “turn the page”/scroll further down…

heh

Had to actually turn the darn page… physically!

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“To fallen soldiers let us sing… “

We bid farewell to a great man a year ago…

And I have little doubt Ronald Reagan would have deferred the title “fallen soldier” (warning: wav file– download or stream) as belonging rather to those who fell on the field of battle in military service, but he served his country with honor and distinction—most honorably in the face of great opposition as President Ronald Reagan. His faithful and vigorous prosecution of the “70 Years War” with communism’s Evil Empire (for longer than the mere eight year term of his presidency), his humility, kindness and generosity of spirit: all these and more made him arguably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, American president of the 20th Century.
See the tributes at Cao’s Blog, Cathouse Chat and the links they provide for more fitting tributes to the life and service of this great man. But the greatest tribute we can bring in the face of such a life testimony is to continue to fight the good fight for freedom.
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What Napoleon Dynamite Character are you?

Found over at Blonde Sagacity

Napoleon
You are Napoleon Dyanamite and a buttload of gangs
are trying to recruit you.

Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

Funny thing… when our daughter brought this quirky movie for us to view with her during one of her all-too-infrequent visits (Aside to Wonderful Daughter: yeh, I know you visit as often as you can and that it’ll necessarily become less frequent as time goes on. That’s life!), I watched it with a growing sense of dejà vu. heh. Nah, apart from the fact *cough* that my autobiography of high school life in the 60s was used as a basis for the film…*cough* I really wasn’t as ‘cool” as Napoleon. I was much less visible, apart from band, chess club and science seminar. And I attended high school in a semi-major metropolitan area, etc. Lotsa differences, but still… yeh, there are similarities—perhaps moreso with the person I am now than then, even. 🙂

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“… the destruction of higher learning by identity politics”

Heather MacDonald fisks the Harvard template for diversity scams

Via a link from Powerline, this City Journal article by Heather MacDonald: Harvard’s Diversity Grovel

Harvard University has just pledged $50 million for faculty “diversity” efforts, penance for President Lawrence Summers’s public mention of sex differences in cognition. The university would have been better off hiring a top-notch conjuror, since only magic could produce a trove of previously undiscovered female and minority academic stars suitable for tenuring.

Even Harvard’s bottomless resources cannot buy a miracle, however. So instead of a magician, the university has brought forth the next best thing: a report on “diversity” that, like all such products, possesses the power of shutting down every critical faculty in seemingly intelligent people…

MacDonald skewers, marinades and thoroughly roasts the idiots who can’t see their noses on their own faces. It’s a joy to read. Unfortunately, those who need to read it most will either not, or, reading it, will deliberately blind themselves to its plain text meaning.


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Get in touch with your boomer memories

No, not “Boomer Sooner”—Baby Boomer

Over at Keep The Coffee Coming, Kat’s doing pop audioblogging that evokes a lot of Baby Boomer memories—even for folks like me whose most powerful musical memories are classical. Check it out. The Sounds of Silence, A World of Our Own and more.
Oh, and one more thing. Thanks, Kat, for the link to RadioWales (BBC)! Sure, the BBC is still stuck requiring folks to have a proprietary “Real Media” player, but don’t let that little piece of snottiness from the BBC prevent you from checking out this great site! If you like good folk, blues (and all kinds of derivatives), this site is worth hunting down, d/l-ing and installing a Real Player alternative. In fact, I’ll just give you a link to one that works, here. Transparent and (completely unlike Real Player) non-intrusive, non-invasive, Real Alternative is a decent software solution to Real Player’s stinkiness.
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See what’s happening at Random Rambling

Some interesting viewpoints and some growth as a writer going on over there at Random Rambling.

Drop on over and comment on one of his posts—particularly the one where he’s asking for reading suggestions in sci-fi. It’s kinda fun for me to see someone’s writing and thinking visibly tighten up as they write more (unlike mine, which remains as prolix and obscurantist as ever, no matter what I try to do to be brief and simple and stay on topic. See what I mean? *LOL*).
Oh, and while you’re at it, why not send other folks by to make sci-fi reading suggestions or just (constructively) comment on one of his posts?
BTW, for those of you who care, he’s one of the good guys. yep. That’s what I said. A devoted coffee drinker. Don’t get me wrong; he’s got his own set of problems. Yep. He likes rap “music”. *shudder*
🙂
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A Pervasion of Computers

Hey! A new collective noun: a pervasion of computers. heh

The English Guy has a thought piece up that will… provoke thought (d’oh!). 🙂 “Computers – Pervading Everything”

Give it a read. Comment there. Come back here and tell me your thoughts, too.

Remember: someone on some computer somewhere will be watching. So, you had better do this. ‘K?

🙂