Month: October 2005

On a lead from Random Rambling, I found this.


It’d make the perfect new mascot for a Republican Party that’d discovered some backbone. What fun to watch all the loony left moonbats run away! Run away!

Unfortunately, the Republican Party ought to have this for its mascot:

Well, James Lileks was in fine form Thursday…

Concerning the Miers confirmation hearings,

There will be attacks, but they’ll be mild. Usually criticism of a professional woman would the tar the critic as gynophobic sexist, but in the case of conservative women you can attack all you like, because conservative women have to give up their uteruses to join the party. Totally true, dude. There’s this big ritual in front of a giant owl and everything.

And, of course, conservative moonbats (yeh, there are some on the right end of the wagon, too) come in for some prime snark, too:

The wailing! The gnashing! The rending of garments! If the conservative reaction to Harriet Miers is any indication, Bush has no chance of winning a third term.

Just toodle on over and catch the Snarkmeister at his best.

Go ahead. If you’re not familiar with the story, just CLICK HERE and read it.  Then come back for my observation re: the Saturday, October 8, 2005 Day by Day cartoon.

OK, back now? 🙂

The dialog in the Chris Muir DbD cartoon for today reads,

Zed: I’m successful, I shoot, open doors for women, yet society looks down on me because I’m a white hetero male.
Zed: I need… I need…
Sam: Dramatic lighting?
Zed: No. Too metrosexual.

So, what’s wrong with this picture? 🙂

Sam’s line ought to read: Just tell “society” to take a long walk off a short pier.

It’s been months… I thought these things had died out…

But then, just yesterday, doing an introspective retrospective (yeh, I just wanted to say tht), I recalled the spate of memes I was tagged for a few months back.

Well, the tagging thing is back… and Romeocat  tagged me for this one: Five Things About Five Things

Five things I plan to do before I die:

1. Sleep through at least one whole night. heh
2. Learn patience. Like now, OK?
3. See some grandkids. Preferably my own.
4. Fly. Ultrtalight will do.
5. Finish this house (no, really! I do plan to… )

Five things I can do:

1. Make anything I can “draw out” in my head.
2. Play some musical instruments
3. Write music
4. Fix most mechanical or computer things
5. Cook

Five things I can’t do:

1. Be a woman. (Or understand them 🙂
2. Drive behind slowly moving roadblocks (Park it off the road to count your cows, Jasper!)
3. Speak gently to a jackass
4. Lose those last few pounds (apparently)
5. Run a marathon (unless perhaps I got new knees 🙂

Five things that attract me to the opposite sex:

1. It’s the eyes, baby…
2. A genuine smile
3. Intelligence
4. Good legs
5. Reminds me in some way of my Wonder Woman (all the above plus any of her characteristics)

Five things I say a lot:

1. “Nothing is an awe-inspiring yet essentially undigested concept… ” and the rest of the P.L. Heath piece until I get the point across that “Nothing” is rarely an appropriate response to a query.
2. Would you like an apple or cherry pie with that; fries or a shake?” (No, never worked at McDonalds)
3. I’m sorry. (Well, probably need to say it more often, especially after #1)
4. Wanna buy a vowell?
5. What was your first clue, Sherlock?

And here’s where I deliberately introduce a viral mutation in this “meme”—when you post your “Five Things” take the top name/link off the list of five below and add your blogname/link at the bottom spot.

1. ArmyWifeToddlerMom
2. Fuzzilicious Thinking
3. Flight Pundit
4. Cathouse Chat
5. third world county

Then trackback—if you can–to the “meme” post of the person who tagged you to let ‘em know you high- (or low-) fived the thing. (If your blog interface doesn’t “do” trackbacks, you can get a free account at Haloscan or use the Whizbang! Trackback tool.) Not necessary, but a nice touch, I think.

Tag five. So, who to tag…

Christine of BTW, Diane of Diane’s Stuff, Rich of The English Guy, Mel of I’m Just a Girl, Dr. Phat Tony and Kat of Keep the Coffee Coming.  There, in case one just doesn’t feel like playing, I’ve tagged an extra. (But folks, don’t take that as an easy out. Even though I do have others I’d like to tag, too.)

Alpha Update: Rich gets to say “First!” 🙂

Beta Update: Mel’s on the ball, too… but I’d better watch my back for a while from the way she sounds. heh

Gamma Update: Diane has her 5X5 up, now, too.

Stop the ACLU

“In 1920, two German professors published a small book advocating the killing of people whose lives were “devoid of value.” Nineteen years later, the professors’ proposal became reality when Nazi Germany established a euthanasia program targeting physically and mentally disabled children, elderly patients in long-term care, and invalids from World War I.”_1_

Others worldwide agreed, among them such “leading intellectuals” as  George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger, Francis Galton, Woodrow Wilson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis. Oh, and the not-so-intellectual Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin came on board as time went on, too.

“The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones — the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the ‘feeble minded’ … As Margaret Sanger said, ‘Fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense of the good is an extreme cruelty … there is not greater curse to posterity than that of bequeathing them an increasing population of imbeciles.’ She spoke of the burden of caring for ‘this dead weight of human waste.’ ”_2_

Among other tools for eliminating “this dead weight of human waste” (“unwanted” human lives “not worth living”), eugenicists espoused euthanasia as a positive value.

Fast forward…

Euthanasia today is represented as a positive choice for people whose lives are a burden to themselves or others, but

“Informed consent is a sham, says Dr. Chevlen, ‘behind which doctors may hide the awful fact that it is really they who make the life-and-death decisions for their patients. Legalized euthanasia is not freedom to choose; it is not even freedom to die. It is freedom to be killed.’ “ _3_

and Lucy Gwin puts the issue firmly in perspective with an account of a group of disabled folk (of which she’s a member) fighting to retain their right to life.  Fighting, among others, the ACLU

“Harder for them to accept was the fact that the Right to Die is mis-named. Hey, I told them, you’ve got that right already. What’s missing now, and what the Right to Die provides, is the right for physician to kill patients without criminal penalty.” _4_

The whole thing is worth reading.

So, is the ACLU really philosophical bedfellows with Stalin, Hitler and Sanger on the issue of euthanasia?

Yep.

_5_, _6_, _7_

“Remember, it is the American Civil Liberties Union which is now behind all abortion on demand, euthanasia, and coming soon perhaps, infanticide for impaired babies.” (an O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo excerpt)

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When I saw this post at Random Rambling, it reminded me of an irritating sentence I had read in a novel recently.

Now, you might think a sentence like “All who work His will are not among your host,” wouldn’t cause a great deal of irritation, but in context it was an indication that the writer had his head up his… ahem, when he wrote the sentence. And how in the world it slipped past copy editor, I’d not know. The sentence clearly indicates a subject “All who work His will” that is NOT included in the object “your host”. Pretty clear: one group has no members in the other group. But from the context one can tell that what the writer meant was “Not all who work His will are among your host.” Not an equivalent statement to the first one.

Gee. Normally I enjoy the daylights outa that writer’s work. But when he writes crap like that, it’s at the very least distracting, irritating. Thereafter, I was on the lookout for the next failure in logical thought, which kinda put a crimp in the old “suspension of disbelief” necessary for thorough enjoyment of the novel. Sure enough; I found plenty more where that came from… *sigh*

On a blog—a kinda informal journal such as this one or most of those I read regularly—I’d not expect careful wordsmithing, but coming from a guy who makes his living crafting stories, writing like that is just lazy, sloppy, a big suck on a sour lemon.

And no, I’m not mentioning the writer’s name, cos his other books have been better-written than this one. I guess everyone has a lazy spell, eh?

Happy blogiversary to me.

Yep. On October 6, 2004, this blog was born. Typical “What am I doing here” first post. Take a few secs to go back and get a taste of how this third world county thing began. Ahhh, those were the days…

UPDATE: *LOL* So, I knew my blogiversary was approaching (whatever post someone made the other day that reminded me of it–can’t recall where–thanks). So, what did I do yesterday in prep? Last night I checked stats different places–Technoratti, Statcounter, Sitemeter and the TTLB Ecosystem. Neat. In the eight months since I started using Statcounter, it’s recorded over 20,000 unique visitors. Of course, it’s just counting cookies n such, so that’s just Kentucky windage. Sitemeter’s proportional to that, although I started it a while later when I put in the TTLB code. Technoratti showed nearly 800 links from over 200 different sites. And the TTLB Ecosystem showed 208 links. Went back a few minutes ago to copy off some stats to put in this blogiversary post and all of ’em were up some, except for the TTLB Ecosystem, which now shows me with 14 links. Hmmm… 208 yesterday and 14 today. Large Mammal yesterday and Adorable Rodent today. Maybe be a lotta folks delinked me since last night? No, Technoratti shows a gain of a few. Must be because TTLB KNOWS I hate being “adorable” anything. heh

Happy blogiversary indeed. 🙂

Oh, well, not in this for the glory anyway. Still just in it to silence the voices in my head. 🙂

UPDATE #2: OK, so this is weird. Honest: cos of upcoming blogiversary, I checked as per above. TTLB: 208 unique inbound links last night, 14 this a.m. Now? 113. (where the 95 or so missing links from last night went? I think the evolutionists hijacked them.) 1290 or something ranking last night; 4590-something this a.m. 1050, now. 16 “better” than William of Normandy’s date with history…

I’m sure glad the TTLB thingy is just for fun, cos it’s sure strange. Oh, yeh, I had the deal explained to me about why the TTLB server doesn’t know about my actual level of traffic, now. No biggie there, either. I rarely know what my stats are there, either. heh Both my regular readers know how deeply I care about high traffic. 🙂

Hie thee over to DragonLady’s World (“An All-American Southern Geek”) if you want some no-holds-barred straight talk. It’s worth a CLICK or three. Heck, I stole found this from there:

I’m wondering where Dragon Lady turned up this lil piece of evidence that we have Leprechauns here in America’s Third World County™… (there’s no gold in these here hills… ) Get more good stuff over there, eh?

Oh, BTW (you’d think after a year I’d have a handle on this stuff, eh? :-), hat tip to Diane of the eponymous Diane’s Stuff

A Precision Guided Humor Assignment from The Alliance of Free Blogs

How can we help the terrorists celebrate Ramadan?

Golly, keep giving out easy ones like this and who’ll wanna play?

*sigh*

In the spirit of true American generosity, we should have a squad of marines assigned to each mosque in the middle east (ok, there are lots of mosques; may have to double up a bit) tasked with delivering a case of Spam to each mosque as our gift to splodydope terrorist pukes.

That’ll teach ‘em. 😉

(Yeh, I also pimped this post at Cao’s Open Trackback Friday post. So? 🙂

quag·mire (kw?g’m?r’, kw?g’-)

n.

Land with a soft muddy surface.
A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.

Hmmm… if he means the first definition it’s not gonna fit very well until the swamps Saddam had drained are fully restored (and even then, what to do about the rest of Iraq?).  No, the first definition’s out.

How about the second? I dunno.  Could be. Remember, Clinton has personal experience with The Quagmire in the Little Blue Dress…

h.t. Drudge… who else?