COMensarations
Friday, July 11, 2008
Saving the Males
A Digression.
As it was getting (1) too off-topic and (2) of considerable interest to some people there, I decided to move that particular discussion to this venue....
Thursday, July 10, 2008
One Would Think — 1
What’s REALLY ‘crazy’ here?
Seems to me that a professor of Law at a major university would know about such things as Building Codes and City Ordinances. But apparently academia is more out of touch than I would have thought.
Case in point.....Professor Reynolds, a.k.a., Instapundit, seems to think America is ‘crazy’ if people get upset when someone builds an ediface on public land without prior permission from the bodies that govern that land for the public. But nevertheless Glenn Reynolds says Jeez. But read the whole thing to find out why it’s rational to be crazy these days.
I can agree with his complaint about ‘liability insurance’ requirements. I can agree with his observation regarding the pettiness of people complaining about children having good, clean fun. I hear those sorts of complaints all to frequently in Zoning Board of Appeals applications. But I cannot accept his ignoring the fact that the structure was built on public land without permission.
Which is crazier? That people insist on liability insurance against being beaned with a WIFFLE ball? Or that a professor of law ignores the law?
Senator Kerry vs. Senator McCain....
We’re talking rank projection, here.
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?
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.
From the high court to the public schools.
It seems that the public education system in England is taking a lead from their Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips. According to this report, they’re indoctrinating the children in the practice of Islam. And if they don’t comply OR they don’t do it correctly, they are punished.
The two boys belong to a class that includes 11- to 12-year-olds, and after their refusal to participate they were given detention, the story says.
Furthermore....
Another parent, Karen Williams, told the Mail: “Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right. They’d never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another language.”
As the saying goes....
...the 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.
Who knew the slogan would be so apropo?
Senator Obama is living up to his campaign slogan. He’s changing his positions on just about anything and everything every day or so. It’s so bad that even the London Times is making fun of him.
Earlier this week, Chris ’Day by Day‘ Muir was bringing up that classic song by Queen, Another One Bites the Dust, but with a clever re-phrasing of the chorus....
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.
What more could you expect.....
....from someone whose ‘christian’ ethics support sucking baby’s brains out to sustain his life-on-earth.
Or maybe it’s a matter of ADD.
Then again, it could be that he is ‘just kidding’. Maybe I should ask Armed Liberal about that....
Just when you thought thinks couldn’t get much worse....
...along comes My Little Cthulhu; the cuddly ultimate in [Lovecraft] horror.
And I thought people were being lead astray by the ‘Harry Potter’ series. Will a cabbage-patch version of Satan be next? Can we combine Evil with Horror? Will we be asked to collect the whole set?
ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS 031641 Jul 08: For that matter....
Will we ‘go to Hell’ if we don’t?
Will we ‘go to Hell’ if we do?
Who’s ‘in charge’ of this mess anyway?
Who’s responsible for all these computer hacks?
Over at Strategy Page, they’re thinking about Communist China’s responsibility for ‘malware’ attacks.
I’d call their analysis of the Communist governments involvement ‘accurate’.
UPDATE: Sheesh! Talk about ‘prescient’....031304 Jul 08: Not too long after I made the initial post, I find THIS.
Here’s the ‘critical’ quote.... Or it’s possible they installed a piece of malicious software on a banking server to capture unencrypted PINs as they passed through.
Admittedly, the names of the defendants in the one case cited in the article sound more Russian or Slavic than Chinese, but whose to say the Communist Chinese aren’t ripping US off as well?
....With Iran!
As found at Instapundit:
My two cents of logic.
Premises:
1. As oil prices rise higher, more and more sustainable energy solutions become financially viable.
2. Sustainable energy helps cool the earth thus solving the problem of global warming and saving the planet.
3. Greenpeace supports saving the earth.
4. Any attack on Iran would cause the price of oil to spike.
Conclusion: Greenpeace supports an attack on Iran (at least in concept).
Is this logic inescapable?
Where’s my Wff N Proof??!?!??!???
What is really damaging—downright dangerous—to democracy.
So....
...what is a more serious ‘danger to Democracy’ than the musings of one religious leader, e.g., Dobson, or another, e.g., Wright?
There are quite a few of them, if you think about it. I’ll mention two of those I consider more dangerous than others, as they tend to be root-causes of so many other dangers.
In my opinion, one of these REAL dangers is that neither Dr. Dobson nor Reverend Wright, or any of those how identify with them, listen to each other.
In his speech of 28 Jun 2006, Senator Obama calls upon everyone to engage in a dialogue about the role of religious belief in making policy. Whether or not he is being honest about engaging others in dialogue about this remains to be seen. But that’s beside the point I’m attempting.
The truth of the matter is that when people no longer listen to each other in the exchange of ideas, they are then ‘telling’ each other. It becomes a one-way communication. Not a dialogue. And, if they realize the the other party in the dialogue is not listening either, then they tend to be come angry. And from there, thinks go down hill. And we end up with 60 vehicles in vandalized with anti-Obama and racist spray-paint jobs....or worse....bullet-riddled cars ....or much worse....people.
Another REAL ‘danger to democracy’ is someone saying that someone else’s voice should NOT be heard. It’s called ‘intolerance’ and it has been a serious problem of human nature for as long as people can recollect.
Anytime someone says that someone else’s honestly held views should not be heard they are tearing at the very fabric of democracy. And once the fabric is torn enough, on the other side you find totalitarianism.
UPDATE As I Was Saying.... 301221 Jun 08: No sooner do I post this and within a few hours here is evidence of what I was talking about immediately above.
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.....
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Look Who’s Talking
Hussein’s WMDs
Is Tom Clancy Prescient or What?
Saturday, July 05, 2008
And You Thought Thinks Couldn’t Get Worse — 2
thought....er...plot thickens.
Friday, July 04, 2008
England’s Lord Chief Justice and ‘Change’
Change We Can Believe In
I’m confident that we’ll see more ‘changes’ of this sort. And, if US is stupid enough to put him in the Oval Office, every nation on the face of the Earth will have no idea what he’ll ‘change’ his opinion on next. Maybe he’ll even decide to go nuke on Iran. Or China. Or England.....
Thursday, July 03, 2008
And You Thought Thinks Couldn’t Get Worse — 1
Instapundit Could Support Obama?
Teach Your Children Well — 1
The On-Going War with China
Greenpeace Wants War….
Monday, June 30, 2008
The ‘Danger’ to Democracy — Part 3
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The ‘Danger’ to Democracy — Part 2