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my years of being a SQL geek have carried over to correcting, via database commands, myriad posts on this new version of my blog. fun to not have to learn something else new along with everything that’s hit me during the conversion from blogger to wordpress. Read the rest of this entry

the hero meter is pegging in bill anderson’s quiet little redneck podunk white-trash meshuggeneh quiet mountain town.

Our road is a county road, which means that state trucks don’t throw down salt and other chemicals (that contaminate our wells), but the county trucks heroically have been coming up and down Pocahontas Road and at least making it passable. (I notice that at least one heroic local guy has been making the rounds with his own plow, thus showing that it is not just government that keeps our road from turning into a big snow drift.)

that’s just an unusual level of herocity, god almighty. the local guy and the county parasites? a fortunate, fortunate man.

excuse the NPR association; this vid (iTunes link, “Video: PJ Harvey And John Parish At SXSW” 8:19 5/15/2009) is worth ignoring the creeps who produced it. PJ harvey the sorceress. don’t tune out if you don’t like the first couple of minutes. FF to the second tune and, while focusing through to the end, marvel at a soul chick in top command of her voice arsenal. it’s funny when listening to the first song and its strained skew-pronunciation to bear in mind that polly jean is english.

all one needs to know about prodigious departed prick jerome salinger (note that “censorship” isn’t an inherently negative word).

funny.

the premise of all fedgoon “job creation” (ha!) is money from nowhere. this wealth is never presumed to have been pried from the fingers of productive victims (many of them still unborn), precluding their chosen avenues of true job creation; it merely falls from the skies via large-numbers obfuscatory magic. no victims.

tyrants lulling imbeciles (categorized by reuters in the URL as “type=marketsNews”):

Obama to announce $8 bln funding for high-speed rail

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will announce on Thursday $8 billion in grants to develop the first U.S. high-speed, intercity rail service the White House says will create or save thousands of jobs. Read the rest of this entry

while window-shopping netbooks last month i commented that i’d love to see them add a phone to the package. the sales guy groaned a bit, almost like i was nuts. looking at the apple iPad though, my opinion’s even stronger. of course phones will eventually be added to computers usable by more than scrunched thumbs or fingers. most of what i do on a computer and smartphone would work well on a phoned netbook or similar. i want one gizmo instead of the 5 trailing from my pockets.

at a bike race in the early 90s i asserted that, naturally, bike computers would eventually incorporate GPS with cadence, heart rate, and barometric altimeter for detailed 3D analysis later on home computer. the old fogy ref nearby gave me a similar “what the fuck are you talking about” groan, since GPS was barely alive even in airplanes then.

via LRC, ron paul to rick sanchez:

‘libertarian’ just means you’re a constitutionalist.

wrong again, cult leader. even your ass-licking former(?) employee lew rockwell disagrees with that dreck.

fellow connoisseurs of the feminine aspect should have a look at Whip It — perhaps better titled Tosser’s Paradise.
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while the court stenographers strut habitually the sheen of “objective reporting”, look at this typical article opener (headlined “Massachusetts vote could threaten health reform”):

BOSTON (Reuters) – Voter disenchantment in liberal Massachusetts with President Barack Obama’s policies has turned a Senate election into a nail-biter that could imperil U.S. healthcare reform.

though i disagree with such use, the primary active definition of reform — and its obvious intended political definition — is “improvement through amendment”. here, via duplicitous language killing, the trollops at reuters are asserting that the monstrous illegality and stupidity awaiting the “crucial” vote of the pending official whore from massachusetts is an improvement.

though a welcome deviation from the cauterizing “nationalization”, even “seizure” doesn’t true up the action of the state to the action of unofficial criminals:

CARACAS (Dow Jones)–President Hugo Chavez ordered Sunday the seizure of a French-owned retail chain on accusations that it raised prices after Venezuela devalued the currency by half.

“Until when are we going to allow this to happen?” Chavez asked during his Sunday television program in reference to the alleged price hike by Almacenes Exito SA (EXITO.BO), headquartered in Colombia and controlled by French retailer Casino …

the noive of those rat bastard producers! take your raping like a… like a…

note chavez’s feigned-incredulity routine, a nearly obligatory element of official banditry. the most effective (with morons) defense of coercionism is an early and big incredulity performance.

when entering an argument, check your premises.

that advice may reek randroidocity; still good. the founding premise of “intellectual property” is revealed in the name, and it’s false. there is no property right in how others arrange the electrons or vibrations or whatever of their property — regardless of that arrangement mimicking fully one you created. the intellect-as-property school foolishness eventually comes down to a question of violence: will you advocate that someone be punched in the nose for copying with his property how another’s property is arranged. do you assert a right to do so?

in this article the copyblight premise has so waylaid the writer’s direction that, while assuming an air of devil’s advocate, he leaves out the most immediate and obvious kill of the article’s subject (beyond the property problem): Read the rest of this entry

most of the publishing truer (e.g., “austrian school”) praxeologists have missed the core disconnect between currency destruction and hyperinflation of prices. what is keeping prices comparatively stable after the recent ridiculous credit expansion? Read the rest of this entry

sad that so few get the importance of straight language in politics. today LRC links to an AP article quoting vermont secession advocate peter garritano:

“The only hope is to just say, ‘Look, this isn’t working for us. We want to start fresh again, with a real democracy,’” Garritano said. “I think that’s the answer. Hopefully, it won’t take another horrible economic breakdown to realize that the people running things don’t look out for the little guy, or us, or the soldiers. It’s all about profit and getting the last drops of oil on Earth and trampling people’s rights.”

so long as fools in the goonited state use “democracy” as an essential good, they’re going nowhere but worse. Read the rest of this entry

swatting RP dullards is fun. had my first LOL moment of the 2012 “campaign” by entering only this as a comment on an RP cult video at YouTube: Read the rest of this entry

Reid’s Race Comments: Is There Truth In His Comments?

zOMG, there’s a hard hitter. talk about a bold subject to raise with the normalons.

blehhhhhhh.

um, look at the populist “race barrier” breakers of goonited state political lore, and there you will find at “the top” mixed-race semi-oreos prancing about as “black”. this requires thought? fuck off. oh, good on ya, ABC “news”. a brave step. golf clap right here, as i type.

LRC’s diarrhea-mouthed asterisk child asserts,

, LRC reader Cory Nott sent me this very interesting observation:

“There are a large number of Persian Jews living in the United States and, while we don’t hear much from them, they have money, influence, and own many businesses. I wonder if Rep. Barrett would advocate the deportation of Jews, or if it’s just “bad” Iranians?”

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funny how few paulists will recognize that this scene applies to them:

[...] These people are delusional. They think that if only philosopher kings like themselves can control the Leviathan State, the State can be tamed.

preach it, LRC pukist TDil!

took pics of a friend’s car recently to help him sell it online. to finish, i asked him to drive it onto the attractive grassy park area of the development where he owns a business. the light and background were perfect, and we got the necessary shots with a few minutes to spare. driving off the grass, we see a guy taking pictures of us, evincing a goofball psycho intensity.

wondering aloud what he was up to (some people had already stopped us to express interest in the car), my friend asked if he should check him out. suspecting what it turned out to be, i agreed. Read the rest of this entry