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Uniting Left and Right? Not Quite, But Better Than Nothing

As more and more leftards desert the sinking ship of H0pe-n-Change, perhaps The Zero really is accidentally, unintentionally (minimally, reluctantly) uniting the electorate… at least as more and more leftards realize what many who have more active brain cells than a broken crock of 10-year-old spoiled* kimchi have known from the beginning: that The Zero has been a suit empty of anything but ambition for his whole life. As one Prime Leftard from the NYT put it just yesterday (08/07/2011),

Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted “present” (instead of “yea” or “nay”) 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues.–“What Happened to Obama’s Passion?”

Well, duh. Dumbass. “[B]ewitched by his eloquence” is just the first clue that Drew Westen, the author quoted above, has been spending too much time stirring his frontal lobe with a fork. If the idiot and his ilk couldn’t look past teleprompter readings that would have been embarrassing to an illiterate, redneck country preacher boy to see that The Zero’s qualifications for the job he was seeking just did not exist, and are seeing it only now, more than two-and-a-half years into a presidency that makes Dhimmi Kahtah look like a combination of George Washington, Solomon and Winston Churchill, then Drew Westen and his ilk are worse idiots than I thought when they originally drooled and felt shivers up their legs at the thought of The Zero as president.

But at least The Zero is so very, very, VERY bad at his job that even these submoronic idiots are awakening to what they and their fellow idiots have wrought.

*BTW, I’m still trying to figure out how one can tell that kimchi is spoiled. I think the best thing to do is avoid it all, since separating out spoiled batches would seem to be impossible… And in that, politicians *gag-spew* remind me of kimchi.

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Nood Gews!

Today, while the weatherman seems to have once again missed the forecast high by nine degrees (about average, it seems) the forecast high is just about backasswards to the recorded high, in the direction of having been forecast too high this time, instead of the other way around.

No, it’s not a sign of an impending ice age. It’s just weather.

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The Gnomes Know…

(stolen… and twisted a tad)

Friends are like underpants (hence the advanced knowledge of gnomes on this subject)….

Some crawl up your butt.

Some snap under pressure.

Some don’t have the strength to hold you up.

Some get a little twisted.

Some are your favorite.

Some are holey (or holy? ;-)).

Some are cheap.

Some are naughty.

Some are dirty (hence, “commando days” when they ALL are… or seem to be)

And some actually cover your butt when you need them to.

Which kind(s) do you have?

Oh, very well *sigh*

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Was Pollyanna Stupid or Evil?

It’s a tough question. If you’re unfamiliar with the reference, take some time out. I’ll wait. Meanwhile, I’ll leave this here for interim consderation:

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.–Napoleon Bonaparte (ascribed)

There is such a thing as human evil. I’ll allow no argument on that point, because any argument otherwise is simply either stupid* or evil. Period. So, accept as axiomatic that human evil exists. Is it then stupid or evil to look human evil in the face and see good? (I’ll allow a third option: insanity.)

Examples abound:

Idiots who defend Islam as a “religion of peace”. Stupidity or witting enabling of the evil hate cult of Islam?

People who assert that America is an unjust society, because we have people they class as poor? Evil or stupid? Consider this:

Ahhh, I’m tired of this already, and my BP is starting to climb… *sigh*

So, are those who are enablers of the hate cult of the Butcher of Medina evil or stupid (or both–likely, IMO)?

Are those who seem to be actively attempting to destroy our society via such activities as encouraging the kleptocratic “gimme” culture evil or stupid (or both–likely, IMO)?

And when do we stop ascribing destructive behaviors to stupidity alone and start calling it malice?

Yes, I aborted a bunch of stupid/evil material ranging from “pro-choice” (which is really, “Deny ANY choice to the unborn”), “Edumacation”, the Thugs Standing Around program of full employment for goons and petty tyrants, and “feddle gummint” tyrannical meddling in citizens’ lives while actively enabling outlaws to The Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Scare-ism and numerous points in between. One can select any issue dominated by the lies of the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, politicians *gag-spew* and Academia Nut Fruitcakes and plug it right into the “Stupid or Evil” matrix for consideration.

*I include in my use of “stupid” acts of witting, deliberate avoidance of facts. Witting, deliberate distortion of facts is evil–slander against truth.

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Let It Snow!

Cold wave. Breakin’ out the long johns. *shiver* 😉

It’s Global Warming! (It’s called “Summer”.)

I can recall a super hot summer thirty-something years ago, complete with drought in some places and floods in others, that “warring” camps were using to either prognosticate an impending ice age or to debunk the climate scare-ist ice agers (all of whom, if still alive, are now global warmista scare-ists).

Neither would admit it was just… weather.

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Dhimmicrappic Cat

Because what comes out of a Dhimmicrap’s mouth is deceptive… always.

Hmmm, kinda reminds me of some Mass MEdia Podpeople as well (although, what are the real differences between Dhimmicrap politicians *gag-spew* and Mass MEdia Podpeople apart from the size of audiences?).

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Yet Another Rant from the Literacy Loon

Son & Heir spent about $7 on a new hardback novel recently ($4 of that in shipping!). He let me read it first. Nice guy. It was well-written by just about every metric. I spent about $7 for a paperback the other day and found gripe after gripe to make about the writing:

Wrong words abound, e.g., “brake cables” instead of “brake lines” when speaking about the possible sabotage of a car. (Cars have only emergency brake cables; the main brakes are hydraulic and served by lines, not cables. Not a quibble.)

Bafflingly stupid grammar in a published work, e.g., “have rode” where “have ridden” is de rigueur. (“Rode” is simple past tense; the past perfect takes the helper, “have” and requires the use of “ridden”.)

With these kinds of things scattered all over the place, my primary “enjoyment” of this book has been using a red pen to correct the errors.

And this thing made the NYT book list.

No, I’m not naming the author or citing the book title. I wouldn’t want to let Google find those here. Just check page 176 on new paperbacks you’re considering buying, Mmm’K?

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Phractured Frases

Yes, I meant to write that. And I know that the words are “Fractured Phrases”. So, why? Simple. Most people I see and hear botching common words and phrases do so unwittingly. And therein lies a stealth danger to society, especially a society built, as ours once was, on shared cultural memes that cut across multiple imported ethnic and cultural traditions, enabling the kinds of cross-cultural communications that created the Melting Pot Society.

The single largest factors in the destruction of a healthy common culture here in the US are the growth of illiteracy* in the US and the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind. The illiterate among us aren’t limited to those who cannot read at all but include those who simply do not read and those who, when they do read, read only crap and scarcely understand even that. Having not read much at all, they are easy prey for the lies about current events, history and civics that are the toxic stew served up daily by the Hivemind in entertainment (“news” and other crap on TV as well as movies and manufactured “music”) that is designed to misinform and twist values away from those which made America, at one time, a great nation.

But what’s this gripe I have against fractured phrases and words? Simple, really. I see an apparently growing trend toward the subliterate and illiterate who simply do not know the meanings of common words (look for consistent uses of “then” for “than” or “affect” for “effect” in a person’s writing, for a couple of common examples: subliterate tending toward illiterate) or are so lacking in grounding in any broader culture than the simplistic, twisted culture presented by the Hivemind that they botch even simple child’s games.

Really? Yes. I ran across a long, massively stupid, “discussion” on a social media site recently where someone asked why paper beats rock, rock beats scissors and scissors beats paper. About one in four answers made any sense at all. No, seriously. A failure of both basic literacy and any sense of a culture beyond the Hivemind. (BTW, rock-paper-scissors has been around for thousands of years. Apparently, it takes a modern American Hivemind-dominated culture to denude it of any coherence.)

Minor examples of a major problem. “Major problem” because these minor examples are much, much less than the tip of the iceberg.

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No, I Am NOT Dumping on Apple

Sure, I think Apple is evil, what with all the i-Crap, the i-tracking, the Apple Straitjacket®, etc., but I’m really only posting the following because it’s humorous:

Poor puppy. Well, at least maybe that’ll deal with the constipation…

“OK, what’s with the excrement humor two posts in one day?” they all ask. And I answer, “Well, at least they weren’t inappropriate.” *heh*