A user on a hyundai message board that I check every few days was recently made a moderator. On a different message board, I had sent him a private message asking for certain digital images and he never got back to me with them after several months. Finally I was to a point where I would no longer need the images and I sent another message that it was his last chance to be helpful before I started the work for which the images would be a helpful reference. Somehow he regarded it as a threat.
I just went to check my messages at the board where he's a moderator. Surprisingly my account was suspended for a week. Hmm. Why, that wasn't petty at all!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Russia: Move Along, Nothing To See
Russia is supposedly pulling out of "uncontested" parts of Georgia. Somebody wake me up when they start talking seriously about pulling out of the "contested" parts. I guess that will be right after Russia declares them no longer independent. And revokes all the Russian passports they recently issued. And brings back all the dead ethnic Georgians. Can you tell I'm not holding my breath, waiting for the map to look like it did last year?
Oh, and in completely unrelated news, we are specifically not trying to undermine Russia by getting all cuddly with Kazakhstan. Nope. Just trying to be neighborly, that's all.
Does anyone wish to buy a used bridge from me?
Oh, and in completely unrelated news, we are specifically not trying to undermine Russia by getting all cuddly with Kazakhstan. Nope. Just trying to be neighborly, that's all.
Does anyone wish to buy a used bridge from me?
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Tolerance Mafia: Playing With Fire.
It is debatable, whether there is an argument against accepting books into a "public" school's library that push a Christian (proper) view of queers on the little skulls full of mush, in the name of fairness and tolerance.
After all, when you have a class scheduled to teach little johnny that it's ok to have 2 mommies, it's not ok to have a book that says otherwise. Or something like that.
However, when people from a group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation start agitating to remove prayer from the nation, they are playing Russian Roulette. If you manage to get God kicked out of the government, he won't take it lightly. Consider what happened to the children of Israel. And the nations they removed (completely) from the land God gave to them, that were not inclined to obey God's rules.
I'm afraid to say, it is an evil day when a group like this is taken seriously (let alone formed).
Of. Of, people, not FROM. Freedom FROM religion is Humanism, which (surprise!) the U.S. supreme Court has declared is also a religion.
So the queers feel bad, and the God-haters feel bad. You know what else feels bad? Burning in Hell forever. Get right and stop trying to knock the hat off the head of the fellow trying to pull you off the train tracks, fool!
After all, when you have a class scheduled to teach little johnny that it's ok to have 2 mommies, it's not ok to have a book that says otherwise. Or something like that.
However, when people from a group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation start agitating to remove prayer from the nation, they are playing Russian Roulette. If you manage to get God kicked out of the government, he won't take it lightly. Consider what happened to the children of Israel. And the nations they removed (completely) from the land God gave to them, that were not inclined to obey God's rules.
I'm afraid to say, it is an evil day when a group like this is taken seriously (let alone formed).
Of. Of, people, not FROM. Freedom FROM religion is Humanism, which (surprise!) the U.S. supreme Court has declared is also a religion.
So the queers feel bad, and the God-haters feel bad. You know what else feels bad? Burning in Hell forever. Get right and stop trying to knock the hat off the head of the fellow trying to pull you off the train tracks, fool!
Obama's a Citizen, Take the Kos' Word For It!
The man sueing Obama to prove he's a citizen is upset that the Democrat National Committee has joined in a motion to dismiss the suit.
The naive man even said "Look what they're doing to Governor Palin: They're opening up her closet doors, they're going through everything personal, but no one has ever gone after Obama. It doesn't make sense," Berg said.
Of course it makes sense. They're the socialist democratic party and Obama is good for the State. Any good socialist knows that what is good for the State, IS good. Therefore, to be against Obama is Bad, post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Duh, everybody knows that.
Except one thinking Democrat, apparently. Godspeed Philip J. Berg, and I hope you can find a fair hearing.
The naive man even said "Look what they're doing to Governor Palin: They're opening up her closet doors, they're going through everything personal, but no one has ever gone after Obama. It doesn't make sense," Berg said.
Of course it makes sense. They're the socialist democratic party and Obama is good for the State. Any good socialist knows that what is good for the State, IS good. Therefore, to be against Obama is Bad, post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Duh, everybody knows that.
Except one thinking Democrat, apparently. Godspeed Philip J. Berg, and I hope you can find a fair hearing.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Cynthia McKinney: Nuttier Than Your Uncle Ted
Okay, no offense to Uncle Teds everywhere, but this right here is a crazy person.
Cliff's Notes: During the Hurricane Katrina mess, t3h govermintz (that would be you) killed 5,000 prisoners and buried them in a swamp. And it's all been covered up, except I heard from a friend who knows somebody who heard it happened.
Yuppers. Sure thing. And there are 5,000 families out there who, what, didn't care? Got paid to shut up & go 'way?
But then, this is (sadly) about par for the course for former (how did she get to be a) Congresswoman McKinney.
Cliff's Notes: During the Hurricane Katrina mess, t3h govermintz (that would be you) killed 5,000 prisoners and buried them in a swamp. And it's all been covered up, except I heard from a friend who knows somebody who heard it happened.
Yuppers. Sure thing. And there are 5,000 families out there who, what, didn't care? Got paid to shut up & go 'way?
But then, this is (sadly) about par for the course for former (how did she get to be a) Congresswoman McKinney.
The Bailout Has Passed.
We'll see what happens. If it all goes to [deleted] again just like it did this time, and they call for more money or more socialism...
...remember I told you so.
I hear Brazil is nice...
...remember I told you so.
I hear Brazil is nice...
Chuck Norris Facts:
If you have not read them, you are at a tactical disadvantage.
If you have read them, you already know you are at a tactical disadvantage.
You will find out:
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
...and much, much more.
If you have read them, you already know you are at a tactical disadvantage.
You will find out:
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
...and much, much more.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The More Cooper I Read, The More He Agrees With Me.
I have been perusing(read: not skimming) the late, great, Col. Jeff Cooper's Commentaries. In November 1996 Vol. 4, Number 13 We read the following:
"The question has arisen as to why we seek all the power we can possibly control in a handgun but do not demand the same from a rifle. The answer hinges upon the difference in principle between the two instruments. A pistol is an emergency defensive weapon designed to turn someone off who is trying to kill you at close range. This is an emergency for which you cannot reasonably expect to be prepared. You will normally be extremely excited and possibly not entirely in control of your nerves. Your first shot must hit hard. It must prevent your assailant immediately from doing what he is trying to do - which is usually trying to kill you. Pistol cartridges are not very powerful, and to meet the violent emergency demand of a lethal, close range confrontation you should choose a pistol cartridge that will give you the best possibility of an instant stop, even if the hit is not perfectly placed.
"The situation is entirely different with the rifle, which is essentially an offensive weapon used at a time and place of the shooter's discretion. The rifle shooter "freezes himself cool" and places his shot with surgical precision. If he has properly studied the anatomy of his quarry, he knows exactly where the vital zone lies, and he plants his bullet just there. Therefore it is rather pointless to push for excessive power in rifle cartridges, since almost any popular center-fire round will do a good job on either game or enemies if it is properly used. (I make an exception of the buffalo, whose extraordinary resistance to gunfire puts him in a special category.)"
Very, very, very few people around today can put words together like he could. If anyone wished to give me a copy of "The Art of The Rifle" or "Another Country", I would not spit in his eye. This is another of the pitfalls of not having enough disposable income: my short-list of Books to Read is at Zero right now. Books to Own list: growing.
"The question has arisen as to why we seek all the power we can possibly control in a handgun but do not demand the same from a rifle. The answer hinges upon the difference in principle between the two instruments. A pistol is an emergency defensive weapon designed to turn someone off who is trying to kill you at close range. This is an emergency for which you cannot reasonably expect to be prepared. You will normally be extremely excited and possibly not entirely in control of your nerves. Your first shot must hit hard. It must prevent your assailant immediately from doing what he is trying to do - which is usually trying to kill you. Pistol cartridges are not very powerful, and to meet the violent emergency demand of a lethal, close range confrontation you should choose a pistol cartridge that will give you the best possibility of an instant stop, even if the hit is not perfectly placed.
"The situation is entirely different with the rifle, which is essentially an offensive weapon used at a time and place of the shooter's discretion. The rifle shooter "freezes himself cool" and places his shot with surgical precision. If he has properly studied the anatomy of his quarry, he knows exactly where the vital zone lies, and he plants his bullet just there. Therefore it is rather pointless to push for excessive power in rifle cartridges, since almost any popular center-fire round will do a good job on either game or enemies if it is properly used. (I make an exception of the buffalo, whose extraordinary resistance to gunfire puts him in a special category.)"
Very, very, very few people around today can put words together like he could. If anyone wished to give me a copy of "The Art of The Rifle" or "Another Country", I would not spit in his eye. This is another of the pitfalls of not having enough disposable income: my short-list of Books to Read is at Zero right now. Books to Own list: growing.
Never Thought I'd Vote Loser-Tarian.
I just sent this to my Senator & Senatrix, who both let me down and took the apparently politically expedient way:
Subject: Change Your Vote Or Lose Mine
Senator xxx,
My sadness is almost beyond words to see that both Senators from Texas voted for this boondogle.
If the revised measure comes back to the Senate and you vote for it, I'm voting libertarian in the upcoming election. If it doesn't go back to the Senate, you have already lost my vote. There are no lesser evils when it comes to Socialists.
The Capitalist way would be to buy troubled banks WITH their assets, then sell them again. Like we did after the S&L crisis. You could buy 23 of the 24 banks in the KBW Bank Index, including Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. with $700B. And still have money left to buy a stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest company in the index.
This is THE Last Straw.
Subject: Change Your Vote Or Lose Mine
Senator xxx,
My sadness is almost beyond words to see that both Senators from Texas voted for this boondogle.
If the revised measure comes back to the Senate and you vote for it, I'm voting libertarian in the upcoming election. If it doesn't go back to the Senate, you have already lost my vote. There are no lesser evils when it comes to Socialists.
The Capitalist way would be to buy troubled banks WITH their assets, then sell them again. Like we did after the S&L crisis. You could buy 23 of the 24 banks in the KBW Bank Index, including Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. with $700B. And still have money left to buy a stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest company in the index.
This is THE Last Straw.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Secretary Paulson is Trying To RUIN America!
If you are not reading Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, you should be.
I know I've been on it a lot lately, but there seems very little as important right now as the future of capitalism vs. socialism in the free world in my lifetime. If you don't like it, you're not paying attention.
Stay on target!
As I was saying. Secretary Paulson, Democrat, is trying to jam a trillion dollars' worth of socialism down your throat. That would be: buy up what nobody in the world wants, for a price nobody would pay, and then lose money when you sell it, after paying billions of dollars of interest on it, in dollars whose value has been depressed by the deal. I said it before (regarding the "economic stimulus"/relection act), and I repeat myself here:
Whose economy are we trying to stimulate, anyhow?
Well, apparently, everyone else's but our own. Seeing that Sec. Paulson has said he'd recommend a veto for any version of the bill that did away with a provision to do away with "toxic debt" held by foreign investors.
Yes, go ahead, read it again, I'll wait.
Surely, David, now you are making things up! We're trying to bail out the homeowners here! (you mean, the ones who didn't care that they were getting in over their heads, when they were doing it? Or the ones who lied and said it was their primary residence when they were really trying to flip houses for quick profit? Or the ones who never intended to pay a mortgage note and lived rent-free in a house for most of a year before destroying the house, renting a U-haul, and moving out? No, we mean the honest one who just didn't get it that they wouldn't be able to pay 70% of their income as mortgage debt) See, it's too hard to force everybody holding the mortgage note to do a workout with all the genuine we-thought-we-could-afford-to-live here folks, and throw all the bums in jail (or even give them a bad credit rating).
Okay, but I'm still making it up. Right.
And I quote: (ahem)
"3 SEC. 112. COORDINATION WITH FOREIGN AUTHORITIES
4 AND CENTRAL BANKS.
5 The Secretary shall coordinate, as appropriate, with
6 foreign financial authorities and central banks to work to
7 ward the establishment of similar programs by such au
8 thorities and central banks. To the extent that such for
9 eign financial authorities or banks hold troubled assets as
10 a result of extending financing to financial institutions
11 that have failed or defaulted on such financing, such trou
12 bled assets qualify for purchase under section 101.
"7 SEC. 101. PURCHASES OF TROUBLED ASSETS.
8 (a) OFFICES; AUTHORITY.—
9 (1) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary is authorized
10 to establish a troubled asset relief program (or
11 ‘‘TARP’’) to purchase, and to make and fund com
12 mitments to purchase, troubled assets from any fi
13 nancial institution, on such terms and conditions as
14 are determined by the Secretary, and in accordance
15 with this Act and the policies and procedures devel
16 oped and published by the Secretary.
"3SEC. 112. COORDINATION WITH FOREIGN AUTHORITIES
4 AND CENTRAL BANKS.
5 The Secretary shall coordinate, as appropriate, with
6 foreign financial authorities and central banks to work to
7ward the establishment of similar programs by such au
8thorities and central banks. To the extent that such for
9eign financial authorities or banks hold troubled assets as
10 a result of extending financing to financial institutions
11 that have failed or defaulted on such financing, such trou
12bled assets qualify for purchase under section 101."
That's from the bill, rearranged to remove some lawyer-induced intentional obscurity and repeated for emphasis. You will recall, please, that one of the problems even squishy moderate conservatives have with this bill is that it gives the Secretary very nearly unlimited power to carry out the provisions of the bill. Moving right along:
From Congressman Brad Sherman, Via Mish:
"The bill is very clear. Assets now held in China and London can be sold to US entities on Monday and then sold to the Treasury on Tuesday. Paulson has made it clear he will recommend a veto of any bill that contained a clear provision that said if Americans did not own the asset on September 20th that it can't be sold to the Treasury.
"Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to bail out foreign investors. They know it, they demanded it and the bill has been carefully written to make sure that can happen."
The world's financial ministers are almost literally whining and crying, saying we should take the bad debts off their hands. It's our fault the world is in this mess, and we should have to pay to fix it now, eh? Guess what? Yes and no.
Yes, we introduced the world to an economy based entirely* on spending more than was earned, and then spending more to pay interest on it, then cooking the books to make it all look just like a profit, then sell that and watch the markets go up 200% in a generation. Yes, we did that.
And since we USED to be capitalists, that would mean that, when everybody charged all their credit to the limit, the whole thing would come crashing down. This apparently is an unpopular option, so now the world wants us to put a gold band-aid on their boo-boos and make it all better with a trillion-dollar kiss.
Let me tell you what they can kiss.
* This is the "fundamentals of the economy" that everyone is talking about: you keep on buying stuff you could have waited another 5 years to buy, because you still had credit on your cards. Fundamentally strong or fundamentally doomed to failure? You decide.
I know I've been on it a lot lately, but there seems very little as important right now as the future of capitalism vs. socialism in the free world in my lifetime. If you don't like it, you're not paying attention.
Stay on target!
As I was saying. Secretary Paulson, Democrat, is trying to jam a trillion dollars' worth of socialism down your throat. That would be: buy up what nobody in the world wants, for a price nobody would pay, and then lose money when you sell it, after paying billions of dollars of interest on it, in dollars whose value has been depressed by the deal. I said it before (regarding the "economic stimulus"/relection act), and I repeat myself here:
Whose economy are we trying to stimulate, anyhow?
Well, apparently, everyone else's but our own. Seeing that Sec. Paulson has said he'd recommend a veto for any version of the bill that did away with a provision to do away with "toxic debt" held by foreign investors.
Yes, go ahead, read it again, I'll wait.
Surely, David, now you are making things up! We're trying to bail out the homeowners here! (you mean, the ones who didn't care that they were getting in over their heads, when they were doing it? Or the ones who lied and said it was their primary residence when they were really trying to flip houses for quick profit? Or the ones who never intended to pay a mortgage note and lived rent-free in a house for most of a year before destroying the house, renting a U-haul, and moving out? No, we mean the honest one who just didn't get it that they wouldn't be able to pay 70% of their income as mortgage debt) See, it's too hard to force everybody holding the mortgage note to do a workout with all the genuine we-thought-we-could-afford-to-live here folks, and throw all the bums in jail (or even give them a bad credit rating).
Okay, but I'm still making it up. Right.
And I quote: (ahem)
"3 SEC. 112. COORDINATION WITH FOREIGN AUTHORITIES
4 AND CENTRAL BANKS.
5 The Secretary shall coordinate, as appropriate, with
6 foreign financial authorities and central banks to work to
7 ward the establishment of similar programs by such au
8 thorities and central banks. To the extent that such for
9 eign financial authorities or banks hold troubled assets as
10 a result of extending financing to financial institutions
11 that have failed or defaulted on such financing, such trou
12 bled assets qualify for purchase under section 101.
"7 SEC. 101. PURCHASES OF TROUBLED ASSETS.
8 (a) OFFICES; AUTHORITY.—
9 (1) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary is authorized
10 to establish a troubled asset relief program (or
11 ‘‘TARP’’) to purchase, and to make and fund com
12 mitments to purchase, troubled assets from any fi
13 nancial institution, on such terms and conditions as
14 are determined by the Secretary, and in accordance
15 with this Act and the policies and procedures devel
16 oped and published by the Secretary.
"3SEC. 112. COORDINATION WITH FOREIGN AUTHORITIES
4 AND CENTRAL BANKS.
5 The Secretary shall coordinate, as appropriate, with
6 foreign financial authorities and central banks to work to
7ward the establishment of similar programs by such au
8thorities and central banks. To the extent that such for
9eign financial authorities or banks hold troubled assets as
10 a result of extending financing to financial institutions
11 that have failed or defaulted on such financing, such trou
12bled assets qualify for purchase under section 101."
That's from the bill, rearranged to remove some lawyer-induced intentional obscurity and repeated for emphasis. You will recall, please, that one of the problems even squishy moderate conservatives have with this bill is that it gives the Secretary very nearly unlimited power to carry out the provisions of the bill. Moving right along:
From Congressman Brad Sherman, Via Mish:
"The bill is very clear. Assets now held in China and London can be sold to US entities on Monday and then sold to the Treasury on Tuesday. Paulson has made it clear he will recommend a veto of any bill that contained a clear provision that said if Americans did not own the asset on September 20th that it can't be sold to the Treasury.
"Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to bail out foreign investors. They know it, they demanded it and the bill has been carefully written to make sure that can happen."
The world's financial ministers are almost literally whining and crying, saying we should take the bad debts off their hands. It's our fault the world is in this mess, and we should have to pay to fix it now, eh? Guess what? Yes and no.
Yes, we introduced the world to an economy based entirely* on spending more than was earned, and then spending more to pay interest on it, then cooking the books to make it all look just like a profit, then sell that and watch the markets go up 200% in a generation. Yes, we did that.
And since we USED to be capitalists, that would mean that, when everybody charged all their credit to the limit, the whole thing would come crashing down. This apparently is an unpopular option, so now the world wants us to put a gold band-aid on their boo-boos and make it all better with a trillion-dollar kiss.
Let me tell you what they can kiss.
* This is the "fundamentals of the economy" that everyone is talking about: you keep on buying stuff you could have waited another 5 years to buy, because you still had credit on your cards. Fundamentally strong or fundamentally doomed to failure? You decide.
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