“The purpose of the school system is to protect teachers regardless of competence. The purpose of government is to collect taxes and pay them to government workers. It may be that some teachers and some government workers do something useful, but that is not the purpose of the system. The Iron Law* prevails.” — Jerry Pournelle
At The End of a Wasted Life…
The best that Barack Hussein Obama-Soetoro will be able to claim as his real epitaph might generously be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
Sadly, as it appears now, he will likely not qualify for such high praise.
When the Chips Are Down…
…and things look bleak for genuine human rights and the rule of law, here’s a motto to remember:
“[T]he only use I have for the moral high ground is a place to put my artillery.”
Remember the Founders, the price they paid for liberty from an oppressive government, and ponder the moral high ground.
Locusts* Gone…
…I feel as though they’ve stripped me bare, though. But while I’ve been “gone”, it seems the words of Qohelet have been validated once again.
“There is nothing new under the sun.”
The Dhimmicraps and Repugnican’ts are still useless, toxic oxygen sinks. The Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind still has the majority of the electorate–illiterate/subliterate, lazy, self-enstupiated American Sheeple–under its sway. “Atlas” still sleeps. And so it goes.
I’m just glad I have such an optimistic outlook on life.
*No, for the literally-minded, not these actual critters. It just seemed that way.
Savannah Calls 911
Dad owes her one.
Free At Last!
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”*
(*twc central mortgage is paid off)
In My Dreams…
[audio:http://thirdworldcounty.us/audio/cold_outside.mp3]
More Locusts
Well, posting is going to be sparse again for the next couple of weeks. Booked to the gills, so don’t think I’ve simply stopped blogging.
More: totally waxed, right now, so this is all there is to this post. Check out my blogroll for some good reads.
The Real Problem? I Discovered the OED at an Early Age
Seriously. As a child I enjoyed little more than reading dictionaries and encyclopedias, and when I discovered the OED (and in my tender young manhood, Kittel’s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament and its exhaustive treatment of Koine Greek *sigh*), well, I was in hog heaven.
So, understand that when I read some illiterate blurb in an email come-on to an online article such as the sentence below, I am a bit disturbed:
“It’s not the cheapest set out there, but it’s chalk full of features.”
It’s not that the author of the blurb is necessarily functionally illiterate (he did, after all, manage to spell his misused word correctly *heh*), but that he apparently has no idea that “chalk full” is nonsense reveals that he’s actually read very little. Any even passably semi-literate person such as myself knows full well that the phrase is “chock-full” or a close variant, and dictionary addicts such as I know why (hint *cough*: the majority opinion leans toward the first word in the term deriving from the Middle English “chokken“–meaning to cram or pack tightly, and NO opinion of any literate person even considers “chalk” to be in the same room as “chock” for the expression :-)).
Then blurb was written, more than likely, by some subliterate college graduate who’s heard the expression but never read it… and never even considered that looking up an expression he’s heard but not read might be a Good Thing before putting it in print.
Dumbass.
And, as my Wonder Woman pointed out to me, the writer of that excrescence is apparently an illiterate, uncultured savage whose only exposure to coffee has been limited to the crap sold by Starbucks and other boutique gathering places of the illiterati. Otherwise, he might have heard of, seen or even imbibed some of this:
(OK, OK, my Wonder Woman was too kind to characterize this savage as what he–oh! dread! it could be a “she”! *heh*–obviously is. I added the “illiterate, uncultured savage” and the comment on the crap that’s sold as coffee by Starbucks. Doesn’t make my editorializing incorrect, though.)
