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Quick Handyman Tip

I’ve used this idea for years but haven’t actually passed it on to many folks before now.

Have a knife that needs a quick sharpening but don’t have a good ceramic (or other) sharpening tool handy? Well, if you’re the kind of guy who carries a knife, you are also the kind of guy who probably has a coffee cup handy. *heh* The bottom of most ceramic coffee mugs usually have unglazed rings of ceramic. Just turn a handy ceramic coffee mug over, and using the handle as a protective device (thumb through the handle, fingers gripping the mug), use that unglazed ring of ceramic exactly as you would a ceramic sharpening rod.

A few strokes later: sharp knife. I’ve found this works well enough that I gave away my most recent ceramic sharpener and haven’t really missed it. Even my largest chef’s knives are easily sharpened… with a coffee mug.

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Once Again: How to Detect an Islamic Terrorist

[Continuing a series of reposts.]

Third World County’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Detecting (and Dealing With) an Islamic Murdering Savage SOB Terrorist.

See a suspect? Maneuver to get the wind ‘em. (Scent: The stench of rotting camel–or other–dung may be your first clue apart from the fact that the guy looks like an Ay-rab.)

Step 1.) Does the goober smell worse than–well, Goober? If so, he’s either a Loony Left Moonbat or a Islamofascist murdering savage SOB. Bag ‘im either way.

Step 2.) When you perform a “cranial echo test” (whack ‘im on the head with an axe handle) does a “thunk” or no sound at all proceed from his pie hole? If a “thunk” then it’s a Loony Left Moonbat and good for catfish feed or for bait for wild boar. If no sound at all issues, then there’s nothing inside (sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum, you know) and you have a splodydope. Remove any useful explosives and see uses for Loony Left Moonbat, above. If the critter attempts to bite the axe handle, it’s an osama and should be doused with gasoline and burned (after removing any useful explosives for later use fishing or blowing stumps).

Do bury any remains of an osama in pig manure and turn the compost frequently. Use this compost to kill kudzu.

There. Wasn’t that all warm and fuzzy, multi-culti?

(Oh, and before someone charges me with dehumanizing or demonizing Loony Left Moonbats or terrorists, please note that Loony Left Moonbats and terrorists have beat me to the punch and either dehumanized or demonized themselves before I could get in on the act. I’m just calling the cards that are already dealt.)

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Discerning the Characteristics of Classes of Wingnuts

When examining the differences between “Right Wing Nuts” and Left Wing Nuts” it is helpful to remember the little handymans’ ditty: Righty-tighty; Lefty-loosey. Right “Wingnuts” have their heads screwed on tight enough that actual thinking can happen. Left “Wingnuts” have their heads lolling around so loosely on their shoulders, one wonders why they don’t fly off the handle more often than they do, let alone how in the world any rational thought could ever be expected from ’em.

There you have it: the primary difference between Right “Wingnuts” and Left “Wingnuts”: Righty-tighty; Lefty-loosey.

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10th Amendment News

From Texas governor, Rick Perry:

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state. That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.

“…Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas.”

He’d better be carefull. While 33 States so far have either begun considering or have already passed bills or resolutions affirming the proper role of the fedgov as limited by the 10th Amendment, who knows what the fedgov may do? Lincoln set the bar when he called out federal troops to disband the Maryland legislature and arrest Maryland legislators for not offering resounding support for his intention of going to war with the Southern States. And the DHS has issued a “report” that, among other things,

“…defines ‘rightwing extremism in the United States’ as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.”

Hmm, seems like the Texas legislature (as well as the legislatures of the 32 other States that have either passed or are considering passing legislation affirming limits on fedgov power, as per the 10th Amendment) would qualify as “right wing extremist groups” under the new report from DHS.

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Just Do It. Now

Before it’s too late.

Do your homework. The fat cat D.C. politicians and tax lobbyists hate the FairTax and take every opportunity to lie about it. Find out why at FairTax.org Take politics out of the tax code.

Going to a Tea Party today, so any work and additional blogging is on hold. Find a Tea Party near you and attend if you can.

fairtax-flyer

Get the pdf here. Print it out and then hand it out at a Tea Party.

Update: TEA Party report: medium sized town north of here (~30,000 residents). When Son&Heir and I arrived, there were better than 600 folks there, and as things progressed, more filled in behind us. About an hour “rally” taking up the whole street and municipal parking lot in front of city hall and the police station (with spillover stretching to the bond business next to the police station with the big “Bailout” sign *heh*).

Passed out all our FairTax flyers and were asked frequently if I knew where a FairTax rally would be soon (I knew only of the “big” one in the State Capital in June).

Meeting closed with prayer and the whole crowd singing “America the Beautiful”. Nice sized choir. 🙂

Update #2: The local (for the TEA Party location) paper reported the, “‘Tax Day Tea Party’ alone drew at least 1,000 people.” (There were other protests/rallies with similar themes that happened in the area–indeed in the same town–yesterday that drew hundreds more, according to the report)

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Worth 1,000 Words

BRITAIN G20 PALACE

Addendum: Contrast The 0!s submissive act toward Islam with

and

Note at about 1:36 the group of people singing (in German) “This is the day that the Lord has made” from Psalm 118:17-27.

Sidebar: my father-in-law, during a church choir tour of a united Germany shortly after the fall of The Berlin Wall/Iron Curtain, was given a piece of The Wall. Touching history… unfortuntely, the “touch of history” we are apparently to see from The 0!’s administration is the subjugation of the American way of life to other, oppressive ways. *sigh*

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Understanding the Difference between Muslim Terrorists and “Plain Old Muslims”

[Another in a series of “worth reposting” screeds from days of yore ;-)]

Charles Brumbelow, in an email published in Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Maor Mail points to an Opinion Journal (WSJ) snippet listed under, “The Religion That Dare Not Speak Its Name,” that touches on a subject that’s too difficult for “nuanced” thinkers to resolve easily, but which seems pretty darned simple to me:

There is a genuine problem here of choosing language that distinguishes between Muslim terrorists and plain old Muslims. But circumlocutions designed to avoid acknowledging the former’s Islamic nature cannot possibly help clarify matters.

Let me help “clarify matters” a bit.

“Plain old Muslims” claim the Koran (choose your own trendy spelling) is their literal guide to a holy life.

Islamic terrorists claim the Koran (choose your own trendy spelling) is their literal guide to a holy life.

“Plain old Muslims” revere Mohammed and view his life and teachings (of which the Koran, Hadith, etc,) as worthy of emulation in all of life.

Islamic terrorists revere Mohammed and view his life and teachings (of which the Koran, Hadith, etc,) as worthy of emulation in all of life.

Now, THE distinction: Islamic terrorists honestly, forthrightly and openly seek to actually emulate the bloody Butcher of Medina, while “Plain old Muslims” are either just not all that serious about actually following Mohammed or are living lives of lies, decieving the Dar al Harb.

There. Now you know the single most significant difference between “Plain old Muslims” and Islamic terrorists.

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Counting on Fingers

From the preface to Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson:

clever-fools

*heh*

I frequently rail against stupid people who can’t–or don’t– count who nevertheless listen to even stupider (though often clever in their stupidity) Mass Media Podpeople, politicians *spit* and Academia Nut Fruitcakes who wittingly or not misuse statistics or other fudge numbers to make a phony point. But. I realized the other day when looking at some numbers that I’d forgotten–through long disuse–the reasons why the statistical formulae I mentally referred to in order to argue with the numbers worked the way they did. After all, understanding the “why” of such things rests on some calculus I’ve not used much, if at all, for about 40 years.

So, in my spare time (ha!) methought myself to drag out an old calculus text and have at it. But. *sigh* I am considerably stupider than I was 40 years ago, and so I tracked down Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson. While I’ll order and read the revised version from Amazon.com, the 1914 version is the one I recall browsing through briefly more than 40 years ago, and reading it on Scribus isn’t terribly limiting. Perhaps, in conjunction with a beer or two a day, a little exercise for what Hercule Poirot called “the little grey cells” will stave off my growing mental decay a wee tad.

Anywho, it ought to be fun.

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The Sounds of Music VI

Once again, Britain’s Got Talent shows up the shallowness of American Idol. h.t. Cao.

Sure, a couple of small bobbles, but I’d gladly have used her in any choir, any musical production I’d ever directed (edit: well, except for the strictly instrumental concerts), even though she deserves a much bigger stage.

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