Monday, April 4, 2011
Surprising No-One
The radio news announced President Obama will be running for re-election in 2012. Pit Boss was having a rough day so I decided to cheer him up by telling him the good news. I knew he would want the chance to vote against The Obama again.
Congratulate Me.
I took an unusual step today. In addition to my blade, I took my phone with me when I went out running*. The phone has a clock on it. I have gone from (first day) a ten minute mile with ten minutes of panting on the ground, to thirteen minutes for a mile and a half with a run to the finish, and sitting on the ground for four minutes. I call that progress. My Darling Wife asked if I wanted to push some children in a stroller when I went out running today, and I gave her a funny look and declined . . . maybe next month.
*Yes, running. Jogging mostly, but it's the running at the end, and wind-sprinting afterwards, that kill.
*Yes, running. Jogging mostly, but it's the running at the end, and wind-sprinting afterwards, that kill.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
I Could Do This All Day
In Texas, if a COP is stopped on the side of the highway with his lights on in the lane next to yours, you have to either slow down 20MPH or move over to give him a clear lane by his car. In Texas, you can't have brake lights burned out on a car being driven on the public roads. Both of these will get you a ticket. Both of these tickets are SUPER EASY to avoid, but if you drive like you walk around the maul with your friends (in Condition White) then it's no wonder you did this today . . .
On the way to Church, driving down I-35, I saw blue lights on the side of the road and moved from lane #3 to lane #2. The joker in an older Taurus in front of us stayed in lane #3 and put a foot on the brake pedal. Not enough to actually slow the car, but just enough to show the world that they have a brake light out. When we passed by the policeman, I saw there was no other car stopped in front of the cruiser. The COP was probably finishing up his report on his last stop, heads down in his computer. IF the COP had been looking up, his nextvictim ticket just drove by, and it was an easy two-fer. I LOLd and explained it to my Darling Wife, and she LOLd too. The only thing that would have made it funnier is if they turned out to have 20lbs of weed in the trunk and admitted to it during the traffic stop.
If you just keep an eye on your car maintenance and move the heck over to give a COP some room, you'll be a couple hundred dollars less-poor when you avoid those tickets, people. This really is not that difficult.
On the way to Church, driving down I-35, I saw blue lights on the side of the road and moved from lane #3 to lane #2. The joker in an older Taurus in front of us stayed in lane #3 and put a foot on the brake pedal. Not enough to actually slow the car, but just enough to show the world that they have a brake light out. When we passed by the policeman, I saw there was no other car stopped in front of the cruiser. The COP was probably finishing up his report on his last stop, heads down in his computer. IF the COP had been looking up, his next
If you just keep an eye on your car maintenance and move the heck over to give a COP some room, you'll be a couple hundred dollars less-poor when you avoid those tickets, people. This really is not that difficult.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Kids Say The Darnedest Things . . .
I started telling this story to my Darling Wife by saying, "So my children . . . "
#2 thought he saw the kids' restroom light turn off by itself. He told us and we brushed him off, so he apparently rounded up his posse and went to handle business. Next time I saw him he was creeping up to the bathroom door and sprang in quickly. #1 was hiding behind the nearest doorjamb.
VFD: (to #1) What are you doing?
#1: Waiting to attack anybody that comes out of the restroom.
#2: (advances through restroom to tub, throws back curtain) AH-HA!
Then we had a little conversation about just whose job it is to investigate suspicions of strangers in the house, and how to look at the front door and tell that nobody had come in.
#1 and #2 put together don't add up to 16 years old, but they were going to handle it. Them's my children.
#2 thought he saw the kids' restroom light turn off by itself. He told us and we brushed him off, so he apparently rounded up his posse and went to handle business. Next time I saw him he was creeping up to the bathroom door and sprang in quickly. #1 was hiding behind the nearest doorjamb.
VFD: (to #1) What are you doing?
#1: Waiting to attack anybody that comes out of the restroom.
#2: (advances through restroom to tub, throws back curtain) AH-HA!
Then we had a little conversation about just whose job it is to investigate suspicions of strangers in the house, and how to look at the front door and tell that nobody had come in.
#1 and #2 put together don't add up to 16 years old, but they were going to handle it. Them's my children.
Friday, April 1, 2011
3 Quick Hits
Not worth their own articles here:
Unemployment hits 11% (or higher)(or 8.8%)(depending on whom you count as unemployed)
Australia's housing bubble looking increasingly almost-ready to burst
This right here is awesome:
Unemployment hits 11% (or higher)(or 8.8%)(depending on whom you count as unemployed)
Australia's housing bubble looking increasingly almost-ready to burst
This right here is awesome:
This is Why I Hate April Fools Day
because, when totally incompetent people are running the government, you can't be sure whether or not to believe stories like this on April 1st.
SRSLY? When do we get to the point of turning the entire nation of Libya to rubble to prevent harming civilians? The story, in case you didn't click through, is about our policy of preventing harm to non-combatants in Libya's civil war: If the rebels start hurting the civilians, we'll have to start bombing the rebels, as well. It is nice to know that we are at least not taking sides in the matter.
These war planners grew up in government schools, where both the victim and the aggressor in a playground fight were punished. Well, here it is twenty years later. What a frikken mess. Hey here's a question: if our bombing Qaddafi's forces and the rebel fighters because both of them are harming civilians, leads to harming of civilians, do we bomb ourselves? WTF why not just roll a couple hundred thousand peacekeepers? I mean really, why not? It is our business to take care of Libya's (and only Libya's) civil war, right? Or are non-combatant civilians not being harmed in any other countries? I'm so confused. If only the Ministry of Propaganda would just tell me what to think so I could worship President Obama again!
What a wreck. What a tangled web . . . wait, who is being deceived here? Is there a money trail? Did Hillary invest in Libyan currency, or did Soros want an opportunity to do so? It's such a mess, our foreign policy. I would say I can hardly wait for January, 2013 but then I remember what could happen in November, 2012.
SRSLY? When do we get to the point of turning the entire nation of Libya to rubble to prevent harming civilians? The story, in case you didn't click through, is about our policy of preventing harm to non-combatants in Libya's civil war: If the rebels start hurting the civilians, we'll have to start bombing the rebels, as well. It is nice to know that we are at least not taking sides in the matter.
These war planners grew up in government schools, where both the victim and the aggressor in a playground fight were punished. Well, here it is twenty years later. What a frikken mess. Hey here's a question: if our bombing Qaddafi's forces and the rebel fighters because both of them are harming civilians, leads to harming of civilians, do we bomb ourselves? WTF why not just roll a couple hundred thousand peacekeepers? I mean really, why not? It is our business to take care of Libya's (and only Libya's) civil war, right? Or are non-combatant civilians not being harmed in any other countries? I'm so confused. If only the Ministry of Propaganda would just tell me what to think so I could worship President Obama again!
What a wreck. What a tangled web . . . wait, who is being deceived here? Is there a money trail? Did Hillary invest in Libyan currency, or did Soros want an opportunity to do so? It's such a mess, our foreign policy. I would say I can hardly wait for January, 2013 but then I remember what could happen in November, 2012.
Communists Are Easy To Please
...aesthetically, I mean*.
One of the original goals of Communism was to reduce art to the most common, base forms. You reduce the expectation of skill in an artist to the point that anyone can consider himself to be one, that's communistic. It brings down the high, and causes the low to believe they are equal to the high. In Communism, this is viewed as a positive good. In Capitalism, the best and brightest are rewarded. A system which values the individual over the collective will value art which displays a high degree of skill.
This makes communist-y people easy to please. Show them a picture that is composed and in focus and watch them fall over backwards. Take five minutes to make something of low quality, but spend five minutes to explain how very meaningful it is, and they love it. Having never been exposed to high art, and having no idea of the level of skill involved, a painting with near-photographic realistic detail does not impress today's government school graduate. P-diddy does impress with his N-tss N-tss N-tss.
The upshot of this is that someone with slightly above-average skill becomes a giant among men and a leader of his peers. Plus you can really knock peoples' socks off by doing the barely-higher-than-mediocre.
*now, politically pleasing them, that's also easy but it means you destroy your country . . .
One of the original goals of Communism was to reduce art to the most common, base forms. You reduce the expectation of skill in an artist to the point that anyone can consider himself to be one, that's communistic. It brings down the high, and causes the low to believe they are equal to the high. In Communism, this is viewed as a positive good. In Capitalism, the best and brightest are rewarded. A system which values the individual over the collective will value art which displays a high degree of skill.
This makes communist-y people easy to please. Show them a picture that is composed and in focus and watch them fall over backwards. Take five minutes to make something of low quality, but spend five minutes to explain how very meaningful it is, and they love it. Having never been exposed to high art, and having no idea of the level of skill involved, a painting with near-photographic realistic detail does not impress today's government school graduate. P-diddy does impress with his N-tss N-tss N-tss.
The upshot of this is that someone with slightly above-average skill becomes a giant among men and a leader of his peers. Plus you can really knock peoples' socks off by doing the barely-higher-than-mediocre.
*now, politically pleasing them, that's also easy but it means you destroy your country . . .
Jiffy Lube Meets War Planning
"Now that we're there" talk is coming out. At Jiffy Lube, they will sell you blinker fluid with no labor charge because they can replace it "while we're in there" changing your turn signal oil. But this is war!
It is alleged that the USA will be diminished if we leave Libya alone with Qaddafi in power. You know what? The President doesn't care about/believe in the greatness of America and I hope that leads us to the wise course of action this time. Hawks are talking about how that "now that we are in the fight we need to make sure it is won."
Really? You want to fight a THIRD war? And this one ALSO against an enemy with no uniform, leadership, or visible command structure, and intentionally mingled in with the civilian populace? Invading Libya would be almost as foolish as invading America. EVERYBODY has or can get a gun, and there would not be a time that the people would stop shooting at us. We'd have to practically level the place to get the fighting to stop. Then what? You leave and it starts up again unless ALL of one side is dead. If Qaddafi is still alive and the rebels are still alive, we would have to stay there permanently. Then you need to install a puppet government just in case the locals don't realize what they ought to do for their own good. Then you're nation building and people call you George Bush!
We need OUT of Libya. That includes our troops of all sorts under NATO command as well.
Leave
Libya
'Lone!
P.S. I know everything is George Bush's fault but I am having trouble pinning this new war on him. Some leftist reporter will figure it out, I have no doubt. Do try not to spit coffee on your steering wheel or keyboard (as applicable) when you LOL as they blame Bush for Libya.
It is alleged that the USA will be diminished if we leave Libya alone with Qaddafi in power. You know what? The President doesn't care about/believe in the greatness of America and I hope that leads us to the wise course of action this time. Hawks are talking about how that "now that we are in the fight we need to make sure it is won."
Really? You want to fight a THIRD war? And this one ALSO against an enemy with no uniform, leadership, or visible command structure, and intentionally mingled in with the civilian populace? Invading Libya would be almost as foolish as invading America. EVERYBODY has or can get a gun, and there would not be a time that the people would stop shooting at us. We'd have to practically level the place to get the fighting to stop. Then what? You leave and it starts up again unless ALL of one side is dead. If Qaddafi is still alive and the rebels are still alive, we would have to stay there permanently. Then you need to install a puppet government just in case the locals don't realize what they ought to do for their own good. Then you're nation building and people call you George Bush!
We need OUT of Libya. That includes our troops of all sorts under NATO command as well.
Leave
Libya
'Lone!
P.S. I know everything is George Bush's fault but I am having trouble pinning this new war on him. Some leftist reporter will figure it out, I have no doubt. Do try not to spit coffee on your steering wheel or keyboard (as applicable) when you LOL as they blame Bush for Libya.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
What's The Worst That Could Happen?
So we're giving weapons to Libyan resistance fighters. We did this in Afghanistan and it is currently biting us in the [deleted] now that we are fighting the mooj's we gave AKs when they were the enemy of our enemy.
Of course, it will never be the case that weapons we give to Libyans will be used against us. After all, if you don't count CIA spooks and military advisors, we pinky-swear we will not have boots on the ground in Libya. Also Libyan fighters almost-never go outside Libya to fight our men, so . . .
Yeah, this is as bad an idea as the no-fly zone. No US tax dollars should be borrowed from China to send guns to Libya!
Of course, it will never be the case that weapons we give to Libyans will be used against us. After all, if you don't count CIA spooks and military advisors, we pinky-swear we will not have boots on the ground in Libya. Also Libyan fighters almost-never go outside Libya to fight our men, so . . .
Yeah, this is as bad an idea as the no-fly zone. No US tax dollars should be borrowed from China to send guns to Libya!
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