COMensarations
Monday, October 12, 2009
Is It Just Me?
Or is anyone else....
...getting the impression that since Obama announced that the US was giving up control of the internet....
....it’s hard as hell to go anyplace?
Friday, August 14, 2009
The ‘Progressive’ Form of ‘Debate’
Don’t disagree with them. It makes them ‘crazy’ And they likely will try to ‘kill’ you.
Typical of so-called ‘progressives.
Check out THIS REPORT.....
Disagree with them in an effective manner and they will try to silence you, one way or another. Even to the point of ‘killing’ you. For example, we have....
Christine Taylor, a 34-year-old New Jersey shopper, vowed never to step foot in another Whole Foods again.
I’ve even seen it in this town, where neighbors said they were all for Susan’s run for the state legislature, but they couldn’t contribute any money to her campaign for fear of the retribution from their fellow ‘liberals’.
UPDATE: This business reminds me of ‘shunning’. That old scorning and distancing of someone by those hard-core fundamentalists. Sooooo.....
......does this make ‘progressives’ latter-day ‘puritans’?
When do the witch burnings begin?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tamiflu a No-No for Kidos?
Oh oh.....
An interesting report from England about the use of Tamiflu to treat children for Swine Flu.
The Pueblo Chieftain’s Juan Espinosa on Health Care Reform ‘Debate’
A Fisking....
A Pueblo Chieftain article caught our attention the other morning. And I decided it was time to throw in my two-bits on what was said in it.
The article, titled “Health care debate deserves more than one-sided rhetoric” and it relates to HR 3200, a.k.a., America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.
It is by Juan Espinosa. He’s the “night city editor” of the Pueblo Chieftain. And, as with all too many people in such an organization, he’s ‘liberal’ to the point of obvious bias. Maybe even to the point of being ‘progressive’. But that’s beside the points I’m about to make here.
But before I begin here, let me comment that this matter is being complicated in a manner that Juan is NOT addressing. Like so many others, he is getting confused by mutually conflicting issues. And I’ll discuss those as “The Bottom Line” after fisking Juan’s article.
So, now, let us begin.....
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Look Who’s Talking
Senator Kerry vs. Senator McCain....
We’re talking rank projection, here.
Hussein’s WMDs
Where are Wilson and Plame now that we REALLY need them?
Interesting report today.
Seems that Hussein’s efforts at achieving nuclear weapons were much more real than Wilson and Plame—along with a lot of others—would like US to believe.
I say, let them eat [yellow]cake. And have done with them. Seems we have 550 metric tons of the ‘flour’ to bake em with. Either that or let them eat ‘crow’.
Paul! You there, buddy?
Is Tom Clancy Prescient or What?
First it was Debt of Honor and 9/11.
Now could it be that someone in Iran read his Executive Orders?
Hope they haven’t read the sequel; Rainbow Six and enlisted the assistance of that idiot academic in Texas.
Friday, July 04, 2008
England’s Lord Chief Justice and ‘Change’
Count that as an ‘oopsie’, m’laud.
Looks like there was a veritable ‘firestorm’ over England over Lord Phillips the other day about bringing Sharia law into the English legal system.
Last night he repudiated, as I see it, his earlier comments.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
And You Thought Thinks Couldn’t Get Worse — 1
England going down the toilet.
The Chief Justice of England now says that Sharia Law should be used in his land.
I’m going to have to watch Errol Flynn in his classic swashbuckler, Captain Blood, tonight. Why? Because I’m suddenly reminded of the court room scene where Doctor Blood confronts a similar idiot sitting on the bench.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Better Pass Another Law….
...against Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
I wonder how much gas a volcano generates as opposed to all the herbivores in Europe? Maybe the EU can come up with a vaccine for the volcano like they are for the cow and sheep. But under all that ice, how will they administer it?
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The ‘Danger’ to Democracy — Part 2
Dr. ‘Focus on the Family’ Dobson vs. Senator ‘Change We Can Believe In’ Obama, via My Neighbor; a fisking.
I’ll preface this item with the honest statement, “I don’t pay much attention to the ‘good doctor’ Dobson”; evangelical christian that he is alleged to be. I haven’t read anything he’s written in the last 18+ years, i.e., ever since I became a REAL christian; January 1990. That is up until THIS business came up.
I’ve got too many other thinks on my mind to spend too much time following other real believers in Christ very closely. I figure that if they’re reading the same book and following it pretty much the way I understand English, they’re on the right track. Therefore they don’t need much from me in the way of ‘guidance’.
So that being said, when I scanned Saturday’s topics in the Pueblo Chieftain, I noticed a headlines that ALWAYS catches my attention.
Dobson’s rhetoric is damaging to democracy
You can read the article here, while its available without charge.
[Note: I think it reprehensible that the Pueblo Chieftain buries thinks and requires you pay for them, if you didn’t catch it within so many days. Some of our political issues go WAAAAAAY back; think WATER and/or SDS. Well beyond free access to an important article in the Pueblo Chieftain, by THEIR ‘lights’. And I consider this money-grubbing on their part as anathema to democracy. Much more so than Christian Piatt’s opinion about the ‘good doctor’ Dobson’s Freedom of Expression.]
Whenever I see someone saying something is damaging ‘democracy’, specifically the one US established, I pay closer attention. I do this because about 38 years ago, I swore to defend our democracy, when, in 1970, I raised my right hand and took an oath to defend it against ALL enemies; foreign AND domestic. During the course of the time spent in service, I nearly died several times. So, you can understand that I take this sort of think rather seriously.
The headlines proclaimed that the ‘good doctor’ Dobson might be an ‘enemy’ of the domestic persuasion. The thought intrigued me. Sort of what we call in the Army a yellow smoke-grenade....a visual ‘heads-up’ warning if you will. Or even if you won’t. Therefore, between bouts of doing code and/or database design, I decided to take a look at the article. And....having read it....I decided it was worthy of fisking,
So....here goes.....
Thursday, March 13, 2008
No More ‘Magic’?
L’esprit Gallic comes in a $35B shoe size
Seems that only a few days after the US Department of Defense announced a deal to buy the [European] Airbus mid-air refueling tanker—over the [US] Boeing offering—the French Foreign Minister, Mssr. Bernard Kouchner, is determined to queer the deal.
In an interview about his concept of the ‘new’ [Note: What a misnomer....] diplomacy he said....
Asked whether the United States could repair the damage it has suffered to its reputation during the Bush presidency and especially since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Kouchner replied, “It will never be as it was before.”
“I think the magic is over,” he continued, in what amounted to a sober assessment from one of the strongest supporters in France of the United States.
If he’s supposed to be of the ‘strongest supporters’, I’m a member of Densa. This is just the sameo-sameo for the French. There is nothing ‘new’ here, except the speaker and the signage behind him. The French have always been and, apparently, always will be for themselves first and everyone else can go to blazes. As a case in point, I will remind the reader that up until the French realized that Iran could very well have a nuclear weapon in the near future, they were adamantly opposed to doing anything to stop that weapons program. Now that they see the truth of the matter, they finally decided that maybe....just MAYBE....US is right about Iran. And maybe Iran might give such a device to some of those ‘youths’ who’ve been burning cars and shooting police in and around their beloved Paris. Oops!
In truth, all the good foreign minister of France is doing is practicing the usual spirit of the Galls. And, as usual, it tends to be bilious. I’m reminded of the famous axiom....
.Never give money to a bad debtor. He will despise you
I would hope that the recently inked defense contract over the purchase of $35 billion in aircraft is revocable. This will give the good foreign minister of France something to ‘chew on’, i.e., foot in mouth.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Hypocrisy In Legal Education?
Why does Professor Glenn Reynolds care?
It seems odd to me that someone who supports the legalization of prostitution should even mention that Governor Spitzer (D-NY) has been caught in a prostitution ring scandal.
After all, if one supports the idea of legalizing prostitution, most people would think that the only thing that would cross that person’s mind upon hearing this sort of report would be, “Too bad for the guy. If only we had legalized prostitution earlier, he wouldn’t be put through this public pillory.”
Rather, the good professor of law at the University of Tennessee points out the, as probably most Democrats see it, little peccadillo.
Maybe he anticipated the interesting convolutions of other Democrats running for office this year....that DOES seem to be what’s happening.
UPDATE From Various Perspectives [101452 Mar 08]:
From the perspective of moral issues, I tend to believe as I understand former President Harry S. Truman believed, when he reputedly said, “He broke his promise to his wife. Why should I expect him to keep his promise to me?” This, when firing one of his cabinet members for adultery.
Or as some Wag said, around 2000 years ago, “If you are not faithful in the small things, how can you be faithful in the big things?” [Note: See the parable of the ‘talents’.] You know.... If you can’t keep a promise to your wife, how can we expect you to keep a promise—to uphold your state Constitution and perform your duties of office—to the rest of us?
From a political perspective, the Instapundit is reporting some interesting doings amongst the various political candidates who were once happy to associate with the Governor of New York.
From the legal perspective, something the professor knows more about than I, Spitzer is in deep do-do; this is a violation of the Mann Act of 1910; interstate commerce in human traffick. I guess if it were legalized, as the professor wants, the federal government could regulate and tax it.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Another Reason I Killed My Television — 071117
Why I believe in Groucho Marx
Stephen ’VodkaPundit‘ Green provides another reason I don’t watch television.
And he wants the lost two hours of his life BACK!
Science Imitates Hollywood
The SciFi people beat the hard sciences to the punch...AGAIN??!?!?
Someone may have finally found the answer to Life, the Universe and Grand Unified Theory....
....and the guy has the attitude of the hero in a science fiction cult classic from the 80s.
Come on now....the Eight Dimension??!??!!
It’s too much of a coincidence to ignore.