2012 archive
Calvacade of Spots 0
Scrapple News, good news edition:
Scouting the Enemy 0
A Republican have apparently decided that the Girl Scouts have gone over the edge into radicalism, based on “a small amount of web research.”
Really, what is there to add?
Endless War 0
Noz asks the question.
I’ll propose one possible answer: When persons feel threatened, they stop thinking. When persons stop thinking, they are more susceptible to con artists and flim-flam men.
Even More Dulcet Tones 0
For punishment gluttons, I have another podcast up at HPR.
Misdirection Play 1
Ana Marie Cox cuts through the santorum to reveal Little Ricky’s little trickies:
Follow the link for the rest.
Runaway Rhetoric 0
Daniel Ruth comments on the fact-free zone which is the Republican campaigns. A nugget:
Read the rest.
Watchers in the Dark 0
Meanwhile, wingnut Virginia Republican claims that the majority of women want the state to stick things in them.
Via Political Prof.
Foot in Mouth Disease 0
Dick Polman recounts a list of recent unintentionally revealing pronouncements by Little Ricky.
Check them out for what they unintentionally revealed (or confirmed–either one works).
Stray Thought 0
An Android phone is not an ideal device for editing HTML code on a remote site.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Tomorrow New Day 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us.
When: Tuesday, February 21st, 6 p
Where:
Lubo Wine Tasting Room
1658 Pleasure House Road (Map)
More here.
Endless War 0
Pepe Escobar, writing at Asia Times, sees the formation of a no-way-out spiral into the dealing of more death.
A nugget:
No wonder Brussels was caught as a Gucci deer in the headlights when the news started to flow that Tehran would pre-empt the move and immediately slap its own embargo of crude oil exports to six European Union countries – deeply in crisis Club Med members Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain plus recession-hit France and the Netherlands.
It took virtually no time for Iran’s Oil Ministry and then the Foreign Ministry to deny it; such a decision, technically, would have to be officially announced by the Supreme National Security Council, which also deals with the nuclear negotiations.
But only the deaf, dumb and blind wouldn’t understand the message; blowback for the ridiculously counter-productive European sanctions/oil embargo package will only plunge vast swathes of Europe further into deep economic pain.
A common fallacy among politicians regarding international relations is assuming that other nations will react the politicians want them to. They are correct about as often as Criswell.
I’m trying to think back over all the international sanctions I recall during my lifetime. I don’t have time to do research, but, off the top of my head, I think the only ones that produced a positive outcome were the ones against apartheid South Africa. The others tended towards failure (Cuba, for example, where the U. S. is pretty much the only nation left enforcing sanctions) or further deterioration of the situation (Iraq after the First Gulf War).
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Outdated public records do not mean fraudulent votes.
Little Ricky, Culture Warrior 0
John Baer takes a detailed look at Little Ricky. A snippet:
But he also doesn’t like women in the workplace, doesn’t like women in combat, doesn’t like women (or men) using contraceptives.
He says that contraception is “harmful to women” and society, and that “radical feminism” ruined society by encouraging women to work outside the home, which is one reason an Inky reviewer of his 2005 book, It Takes a Family, called Rick “one of the finest minds of the 13th Century.”
Light(er) Bloggery 0
As of today, the pace of blogging here will likely decrease, as I will no longer be self-(not very gainfully)employed, but will merely be employed.
It also marks a step along a path I set for myself about a year ago, when I purchased a book, designed a self-study program, and set up computers (one physical machine and two virtual machines) running CentOS: to start a technical career working in a Linux operating system environment.
There will be no decrease in the outrage here on the Farm, merely a decrease in the frequency with which it is expressed.