Doing it right:
Sure, Despair Is a Sin
…but things like this make one wonder if it’s sometimes just being aware of reality. *sigh*
“In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.”
— Joseph Sobran
Remedial English, dumb-dumb “math” (counting past fingers and toes?) and “wymyn’s studies”. This is supposedly among the best and brightest we have to offer? Is it any wonder the primary influences in our society today are illiterate, innumerate, self-lobotomized Mass MEdia Podpeople, Hollyweird celebrities and tone-deaf “musicians”?
Imagine…
(Not great, but not all that bad either. Imagine it: a president who can sing better than 90% of “manufactured music ‘artists'” plaguing the “music industry” nowadays… just imagine… )
*heh*
The guy also seems to have a better sense of humor than anyone who’s run since Reagan.
“Well, I’ll Just Have to Do Something Else, Then… “
I highly recommend LMAObama. Better to laugh at the asshat in the White Café au Lait House than to despair.
I’ll Hand This to Apple…
The Iron Fist with which Apple Rules Its Software Realm means that stupid things like I ran into on a lil netbook recently are less likely to happen with Macs. Of course, they simply do NOT happen on ‘nix computers anyway, because of the way apps install and uninstall so very cleanly (for the most part, unlike Windows apps), so the Iron Fist of Apple™ is really not all that necessary, but still: minor advantage to Macs.
OK, here’s the deal. About 2.something years ago, I installed Stardock’s freebie subset of Windowblinds on a lil HP netbook as the easiest way for the user to kludge around Win7 Starter’s stupid “No, you may NOT change the desktop background!” restriction. Later, I upgraded that lil netbook to Win7 Pro for the user and the Stardock app was no longer necessary, so I uninstalled it. I thought.
“No, no!” said Stardock, “While we know you want to uninstall the product and you have explicitly stated that you want ALL the product uninstalled, we’ll leave the Stardock service to run on the computer, eating up limited Atom chipset resources. Because we can (and because we just don’t give a damn what YOU want).”
After disabling the Stardock “service” and manually deleting files and references to the product in the Registry, it’s FINALLY gone.
I think. *heh*
I swear, Stardock software is almost as inconsiderate and intrusive as Apple software on a Windows computer. Almost.
Tempest in a Teacup
(Yeh, yeh, I know some people use the less harmonious “tempest in a teapot”, and some–looking at you Brits :-)–may even use “storm in a teacup”, but just live with it.)
Saw this on FB. It’s wrong, of course. There is no debate, only silly, lazy, unthinking people advocating “A”.
*heh*
Occupy…Whatever
Po’ babies got it rough
I’ll try to locate the source of the graphic. For now, all I know is that I “stole” it off someone’s FB post. I do know this, though: whoever wrote it doesn’t know the difference between “take” and “bring”. *heh*
Birds of a Feather
The filthy “Occupy Wall Street” dumbasses have gained three new supporters:
Obama extends support for protesters
Naturally.
Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements
Of course.
UPDATE: More commie/socialist/statist-tyrannist birds flock to join the OWS unwashed:
Are You Sure You Are Qualified to Vote? Hmmm?
OK, so you may have the “right” to vote, but are you really qualified to cast that vote? I’d suggest that at least two things must obtain before a citizen who has a right to vote is right to exercise that right. Those two things are
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1. A working knowledge of the basics of US history, geography and government functions.
2. A grounding in the facts of the issues and candidates of the day.
Given those two criteria, I doubt more than half (if that) the people who cast their votes on election day(s) throughout America are qualified to do so. Sure, they may have opinions, but opinions informed by ignorance are worth the information that is their basis.
Try these out on friends, acquaintances and associates:
Could you pass a US citizenship test?
and
The SHORT FORM of this Civics Literacy Test
Any of those three linked quizzes should afford an adequate look at one’s basic American civics literacy.
As for adequate knowledge of candidates and issues, the best test is simply this: is your primary source of information the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind? Then, FAIL. *heh*
Just sayin’. (I hate sharing the polling place with people who are too lazy to do their homework before casting their vote. Really hate it.)
If you fail the simple tests of either basic criteria, please stay home the next time the polls are open. Really, it’s for your own good as well as that of society.
Note: the quiz found at Could you pass a US citizenship test? is the least well-framed of the three offerings above, but does accurately reflect the really poor framing of a current real citizenship exam. *sigh* Some of the question/answer combos are reflective of a “history” and “civics” view that is more propaganda than actual history and civics, such as, “What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?” (The real correct answer: Nothing but provide for disingenuous propaganda,” but the “correct” answer according to the test–which I dutifully rendered–was the lie, “Freed the slaves”.)
Still, on that “test” because I have for all my life had a semi-dyslexic recall of the geography of the “Left Coast”, I almost missed a question. (Yes, I said “A question” *heh* Don’t make me brag about my scores. Just let it be with “My eighth grade American Civics class would have been amused to be asked to take tests this simple.” No, seriously.)
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