tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-271322242011-12-26T10:21:01.763-08:00Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-85187535272126907892007-11-01T22:37:00.000-07:002007-11-01T10:51:15.300-07:00

This blog is closed for the duration of the War. It's been fun, kids, but personal and professional obligations are preventing doing the kind of work here that made it worthwhile. There may possibly be something in the archives worth reading. Everything else, links, groups, etc. will be in suspended animation unless you want to give me the ol' heave-ho.The Magnum Opus was almost surely The

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I was glad to see that Mrs. Clinton had officially dropped her $5,000 “Baby Bond” after realizing that it didn’t poll well; I was not at all surprised to see that she had replaced it with an equally odious proposal for piecemeal socialism yclept “American Retirement Accounts,” to be paid for by “taxing estates worth more than $7 million per couple.” Mrs. Clinton has repeatedly insisted that she’

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-39358088503347669652007-08-22T21:25:00.000-07:002007-08-22T17:28:31.255-07:00

It would be entertaining and amusing to fill a lengthy post every day with the follies of mankind, courtesy of the massive aggregating power of the Internet; indeed, the Opinion Journal’s James Taranto does something like this daily with his Best of the Web, though he mixes news and commentary in with the egregious examples of human folly. Like many of you, I have various Google Alerts and

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-56441189528252381152007-07-23T21:21:00.000-07:002007-07-23T15:27:34.795-07:00

I well realize that this will come a shock, a terrible surprise of outrageous proportions; but...Al Gore is right.The Assault on Reason has put Live Earth in the Balance, and The Sky is Falling. Literally. Just yesterday it was hot, very hot, at my house. Al is also correct that merely cutting the electricity bill at your pool house or using a smaller private jet are not enough--things have

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In choosing a handgun for the home or concealed carry I recommend 110-year-old technology:The double action revolver.Advantages vs. the semi-auto pistol:1) Ease of use--in the gravest extreme, under the most compressed stress you will ever experience, there are no safeties to operate, no adjustments of trigger pull for the second shot (double action auto), just put front sight on center of mass

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The United States of America is mistakenly called a “democracy” so often that a lot of fairly intelligent people seem to have bought into this error--people who should know better, like Peggy Noonan. Ms. Noonan has written many a fine speech, but in today’s Opinion Journal column she not only seems to think that President Bush should have his head in his hands like LBJ because he’s supposed to

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In a way. See here.

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And he had a blog?

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It seems that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has revealed that a certain level of suspicion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) still exists in these United States.“Rival camps take aim at Romney’s religion” says the Boston Globe story, wherein we find operatives from the McCain, Brownback and Giuliani campaigns

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You’ve often heard the questions—from the writers and commenters at conservative, libertarian and other "thinker's" blogs and web sites, from callers to talk radio shows, even from professional writers and columnists: Why do academics and journalists constantly attack America for an Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay, but say little or nothing about the millions unspeakably brutalized and butchered

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-81391241290463113222007-06-03T22:31:00.000-07:002007-06-03T22:51:27.705-07:00

The Art of Learning By Josh Waitzkin. 265 pp. Free Press. $25.After the release of the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer in 1993, Josh Waitzkin was sixteen years old and the most famous chess master in America—except for Bobby Fischer himself. Fischer, however, was moving around Eastern Europe, unable to return to the U.S. without risking arrest after violating the sanctions against Yugoslavia

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Victor Davis Hanson manages to identify the difficult realities, make me laugh about the present and smile about the future, all in the same short piece:What, then, is the radical Left good for? Mostly psychological cover. It is our version of the Athenian elite demagogue’s dung on his boots or Medieval indulgences or the Bible in the hand of the philandering fundamentalist. Its rhetoric alone

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-69970250890313381312007-05-21T21:24:00.000-07:002007-05-21T13:29:42.671-07:00

From one of the most original thinkers of our time, Professor Frank Tipler:It is becoming increasingly clear that this corruption of education is probably universal across all disciplines. If so, then all advanced education will have to be obtained outside of the university. And if that is the case, then why should universities exist at all?Read the whole thing, and wonder.

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...or whatever they're calling it. Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review Online puts together a good digest of (mostly) conservative blog reaction, and it's pretty ugly.A problem I have with this "compromise" (at least the high points, as announced) is not only that it seems like bad policy to reward illegal immigration, it's also bad politics for the Republican Senators (and the President) who

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It was my political science professor back at the U. who started me thinking about it, with a very simple question during a class on American government: “What is the biggest factor that makes things work in a society?” When no one else popped up with an answer, I ventured that it was a stable government. Others gave answers like “Everyone shares the wealth” (the class socialist), and “An

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After a vacation without computer access, followed by one of those dreaded surgical "procedures," I'm back at the keyboard, but aside from my colloquium response over at Eternity Road today I have little of import to offer. Instead, I will make myself useful by providing this inspiring image taken by the lovely wife of an esteemed Alaskan friend, now living in Japan:There, wasn't that much more

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-74884763971197489682007-05-03T09:14:00.000-07:002007-05-03T11:32:47.966-07:00

Home page here.

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Make a motivational poster of your own here.

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Near the end of a previous post (The Great Secret That We Already Know) I mentioned “that there is a sound scientific, physiological basis for repeating important information often,” and said that perhaps I would take that on. The time has come. Since then, the Esteemed Proprietor of Eternity Road F. Porretto has also done a post on conditioning and the media. He wrote: Among the lower

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-80251270109569537002007-04-25T21:19:00.000-07:002007-04-25T12:28:02.396-07:00

My good friends at WSJ's Best of the Web point this out from al-Rueters:Palestinians attend a demonstration against violence in Gaza April 23, 2007. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)I don't think any further comment is required. Well, maybe it's a dummy AK-47 for demonstration purposes only.

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Classical Values.If you don't read it periodically, just start at the top and scroll down; unlike my blog, every post has meat and drink and substance.For example:Please bear in mind that I have no bias here, as I am not a beekeeper, a farmer, an environmentalist, an angry anti-bee vegan, or a journalist. Yeah, well, I am blogger, and I do admit to having certain issues where it comes to being

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-32605985019885565322007-04-23T21:41:00.000-07:002007-04-24T15:59:31.197-07:00

I decided not to write about the murders at Virginia Tech right away--I had a pretty good idea of what was coming from the media, and the political class, and the only pleasant surprise there were the low key, limited cries for gun confiscation from the Democrats. The New York Times editorial was utterly predictable, which is why I don't read that particular paper anymore; I recall that

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Rusticus says it beautifully, here. A sample:We are solidly middle class, and enjoy benefits that the mightiest king or pharaoh of old couldn’t have, and many things that we take for granted were only given to the powerful and rich across the years. We have at our fingertips a staggering amount of power to shape our environments to our liking. I’ve spent time with the class deemed ‘poor’ in

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-24460885582350960822007-04-20T21:10:00.000-07:002007-04-20T09:55:36.534-07:00

Other than my recent unveiling of The Great Secret That We Already Know (and if we already know it, did I really unveil it?), what have I done for you, Dear Reader, lately?Well, I'm doing something for you now, directing you to yet another marvelous fireball of a blog, streaking across the Interweb with wit, humor and a bracing dose of cold water poured on the sanctimonious sheisskopffen that

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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!(h/t ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ)

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-32281962858905441122007-04-17T21:47:00.000-07:002007-04-17T17:10:04.690-07:00

Becky C., proprietor of Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whatever, lists these as her "interests" on the profile page:HikingLibertarianismMomsParentingTeachingMountain climbingCatholicismChristianityNudismConservative politicsComputersSpankingFirearmsSkiingSnowboardingTridentine MassRomanceScrapbookingNaturismFootballVietnamBasketballCrossstitchProlifecatsMuch more interesting than my

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-6922307842159988352007-04-16T22:18:00.000-07:002007-04-16T17:25:39.050-07:00

Since I was a young man (if you must know, let's say for about the past 30 years) I've been pursuing the 'secrets' of human success and performance. I was the kid at your high school who had his nose in a book all lunch hour--usually something that hadn't been checked out of the school library for at least five years, if ever.When I was 11 I read Robert A. Heinlein for the first time, and a

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I very excited and happy to announce that this humble blogger (yes, I mean me) has been added to the list of contributors over at Francis W. Porretto's Eternity Road. The only problem with this is that the eminent Mr. Porretto has been turning out regular, powerful, thoughtful and beautifully written columns almost daily for years, while I've been turning out intermittent, chancy lightweight

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-80010192963909329662007-04-11T21:19:00.000-07:002007-04-11T16:53:49.566-07:00

Psychologist Wulf-Uwe Meyer, a pioneer in the field, conducted a series of studies where children watched other students receive praise. According to Meyer’s findings, by the age of 12, children believe that earning praise from a teacher is not a sign you did well—it’s actually a sign you lack ability and the teacher thinks you need extra encouragement. And teens, Meyer found, discounted praise

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Restoring the Garden of Eden...as a result of a systematic plan by Saddam Hussein's regime to ditch, dike, and drain the marshes of southern Iraq, less than 10% of the area remained as functioning marshland by the year 2000... One year after reflooding, species recovery was occurring in all three former marshland sites...CONCLUSIONS The restoration of southern Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes is now a

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-13562839680280189482007-04-09T21:39:00.000-07:002007-04-09T14:30:46.253-07:00

Though I was a visitor on Day 1, I've never linked to a Huffington Post article until now. I was suspicious of the promise of diversity of viewpoint at the site then, and generally I was right in my suspicions. As those of you who have ventured there know, HuffPo is mainly a collection of attacks on the current Administration and presents mostly the opinions of lefty Left Coast left-wingers in

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"You have a very gentle face and a very erotic physique."Unfortunately, I'm just not sure which one was speaking at the time.

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Caught in the Fire is another good blog with quite a lot of chess content and plenty of other interesting thoughts--the blogger says he's an Objectivist, a philosophy I've studied a great deal, and also through this blog I learned about GTD (Get Things Done), a system of achievement in work and life that I'd never seen before, despite reading and searching out success and achievement resources

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For many years I've been a reader and admirer of Robert Ringer, author of Winning Through Intimidation and other interesting tomes.One of Ringer's formulations that has struck me, and has stuck with me, is what he called his 'Reality Theory:' Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to

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Found through Blogiversaries--Chic[k]pilot"I am thankful for Jesus, coffee, dogs, daisies, unexpectedly good things happening, jet engines, and beer."What's not to like?

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Via Instapundit I read this over at The New Editor:The Geneva Convenience Convenient for AP's reporting, that is. Now that's it's British captives rather than Islamic terrorists behind bars: The third Geneva Convention bans subjecting prisoners of war to intimidation,

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I've been enjoying the blog Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary by James Plaskett, a British chess Grandmaster now living in Spain. In the archives was this post, which at over 35,000 words is the longest I've ever run across in my years of reading blogs. Obviously, one could just cut and paste something longer in an effort to set some kind of record--but I'm curious if any reader has ever

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-69348630196972192592007-03-27T21:52:00.000-07:002007-03-27T14:17:07.426-07:00

Is this a Real Site or sophisticated spoof of heroic proportions?You decide!Via Right Wing Nation via Plancks' Constant via Eternity Road. Whew.

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Ever since I read the term synthesist and its explanation in Heinlein's marvelous Have Spacesuit Will Travel, I've tried to be a synthesist, too. Just like Pee Wee's Daddy.Let's synthesize a few blog excerpts!#1 Ontologically, leftism is "the substance of nothing," which is why politically it is the party of nihilism. There is no leftism without the intoxicated celebration of tearing down, of

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I've been working on a project to get the "best of" research links and resources together on one page for ease of use--and here it is! I believe that using just what's on this page one can find out almost anything there is available in the WWWW (Weird Wonderful Web World).Use this page, or cut and paste--and let me know if I missed something.(Hey I feel like I've finally done something useful!)

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All of this needs to be not just read, but absorbed into your weltanschuung:Attempts to confront the lure of “progressive” ideology with facts and logic have failed and will continue to fail because the “progressive” faith is not based on facts and logic. It is based on morality and this is the ground on which it must be fought. Conservatives who support their positions with economic and

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-1304231978581504062007-03-21T21:55:00.000-07:002007-03-22T11:58:40.200-07:00

One hopes not. This is the full text of a piece by Paul Belien in the invaluable Brussels Journal, required reading for all news European:Ondiep, a working class neighbourhood in the Dutch town of Utrecht, is in turmoil. After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went on a rampage, burning cars, looting

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-40543955759639120922007-03-16T22:08:00.000-07:002007-03-16T17:12:05.100-07:00

By mid-February, the Iraqi Army reported that terror operations in Baghdad had dropped by 80 percent. Closed shops had re-opened, markets were once again crowded and displaced families were returning to their homes. Insurgent leader Moqtada al-Sadr left the country, the Iraqi government stopped protecting insurgents, and raids netted leaders as well as men and materials that had been used to

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-16070929183957567052007-03-14T21:50:00.000-07:002007-03-15T11:48:45.290-07:00

I love to read Camille Paglia's monthly column, just because she's such a fine, fun writer. I don't agree with her on all that many issues, but she has the unusual quality of saying good things about people she disagrees with, when they're warranted and true. It's something that most of the rest of the left commentariat is sadly lacking.Here's a link to the current column. I've provided a few

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A Message of Hope:I seldom pass along inspirational stuff, but this one got to me.I believe, in these difficult and mean-spirited times in which welive, there needs to be a message of Hope.We can all use a single image that speaks to us of love, harmony,peace and joy.An image that suggests the universality of us all.I have been sent that image, and I want to share it with you all.All I ask that

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-3611767474396766542007-03-09T23:49:00.000-08:002007-03-08T13:58:58.991-08:00

My Sitemeter froze a couple of days ago and I can't seem to get it to work with any various tricks like removing and reloading it, etc.So I decided I'm just going to let it be. Maybe sometime soon I'll get one of the other counters on here, but meanwhile it'll be a good lesson in not worrying about the numbers, which weren't exactly Instapundit material anyway!

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Test any site at GreatFirewallofChina.org and see! This one isn't--what am I doing wrong?(h/t Deep Thought--he's banned!)

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Memory is a funny thing; for the last 25 years I had thought that John Belushi and Ayn Rand died the same day, but I see that officially Belushi is listed as dying March 5, 1982 and Rand as March 6.It's amusing to see the New York Times do a story on how "influential" Belushi still is, 25 years after his death:By most measures, the round comic with the sharp edges left a small body of work when a

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I was working just up the street in the lovely Capitol City of the Great State of Nevada. Little did I know what I was missing.Make sure and wait for the last bit--or just skip to it.

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The Colossus points us to this fascinating infobit:Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.Of course he, and others, can't resist having a little fun with the concept:Personally, I'm more concerned by

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-79256711073808846752007-02-20T21:24:00.000-08:002007-02-20T17:23:54.336-08:00

Remember the Synfuels Corp.? The Space Shuttle? Government cheese?More evidence that the government can usually be trusted to put out an inferior product:For researchers studying marijuana, it’s been a very good week. In one of the most careful studies to date, marijuana was found to relieve pain. And a judge ruled in favor of an agronomist who has has been trying for six years to overcome one

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-39052481107588124462007-02-14T21:15:00.000-08:002007-02-14T20:37:20.683-08:00

Batman sighting puts schools on lockdown:Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert...[snip]Nedda Shafir, a spokeswoman for the Cave Creek Unified School District, said putting

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Peregrine John (is this his blog?) makes a thoughtful comment about my previous post on how "I've decided I'm going to use [this blog] strictly as a forum to talk about growth, happiness, health and life-enhancing, positive things.":I have no problem with your application of wit in either direction, since promotion of truth and deflation of untruth work to the same end. A sword has 2 edges for a

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(h/t Malcolm Pollack)

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I've mentioned The Work of Byron Katie a couple of times here, as a method for growth that will not drain your bank account like Scientology, and as a way to happiness that perhaps won't take 10,000 hours.Here's how it goes with the founder herself doing the facilitating.After a week off from the blog I've decided I'm going to use it strictly as a forum to talk about growth, happiness, health and

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I've been reviewing the recent output here, and with the possible exception of some of the earlier Thinking pieces, it has been too negative and snarky to suit me.So I'm taking a break of indeterminate length to pursue other things. I will return, but like Gen. MacArthur, I just don't have an exact date yet.Meanwhile, these great bloggers write excellent, extensive material on a regular basis,

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All the Old Dudes, by Jack Langer, from Human Events Online.I wasn't there, and couldn't do it any better if I had been! "A man could make a fortune selling Geritol to these people."Capitalist stooge that I am, that was my first reaction upon reaching the Washington Mall last Saturday to observe tens of thousands of demonstrators rally against the war in Iraq.(...)I felt especially sorry for

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-8849084836184909642007-01-29T21:10:00.000-08:002007-01-29T16:13:38.106-08:00

at Illumination, Inc. will consist of a self-referential title and a sentence referring to said title.

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I don’t do much political commentary here, generally preferring to concentrate on matters that will be of import beyond tomorrow’s headlines or the concerns of the nanosecond of The Body Politic. I do love to laugh, though, and so instead of attempting any sort of rational analysis of the President’s State of the Union address, I’m going to share a couple of things that are really too precious

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Direct from National Leftist Headquarters:BERKELEY – Last week, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock two minutes forward, to five minutes to midnight. Created in 1947 by former Manhattan Project scientists, the clock is a simple metaphor for

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The British Independent discovers that happiness is a skill, in an interesting and sometimes hilarious article titled "The happiest man in the world?First, the idea that:"Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time."is not a startling new revelation that has to be

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Pajamas Media:As far as breaking news goes, it is a Matt Drudge Internet and everybody else is just “developing….” On this day in 1998, Matt Drudge @ The Drudge Report first broke the news that there was more to the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky story than passed through the lips of the then President.The DrudgeReport headline that day went, NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN.

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The Eminent Gagdad assists:As we know, certain persistent traits set the Raccoon apart from his peers, including a sense of essential Truth, a sense of the sacred, a sense of beauty, a sense of grandeur (or dignity), and a sense of mischief. Taken together, these comprise his "coon vision," accounting for his laughably quasi-infallibility in metaphysical matters. But this mystical intuition is

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As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.--Donald Rumsfeld--Our former Secretary of Defense took some kidding for the quote above a few years ago--but I thought it was a pretty deep and accurate

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A short while back I did a post about "[A]bandoning your preconceptions and giving fair consideration to new evidence that tends to contradict a current belief."Okay, let's do an excercise! Here's a video designed to present the very worst aspects of the meat industry and turn the viewer into a vegetarian. It's pretty horrifying, I suppose...for anyone who had no previous idea where their meat

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I thought I knew quite a bit about the history of Islam and the differences between Shia, Sunni, and the extremists of both stripes, but I learned a good deal more from this excellent article by Peter Wehner, Director of the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives. Everyone who is threatened by the extremists ought to know this information--in other words, every American, Canadian,

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Frequent commenter and fellow pursuer-of-truth Rusticus of Solarvoid reviews Anthony Flew's How to Think Straight, which I obviously need more than anyone, given my ramblings on the subject.Intriguingly Professor Flew, formerly a hardcore atheist, has apparently used his thinking skills to come to a type of deist position in recent years, which has some parallels to my own intellectual journey.

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In my last post I said that "Questions are the beginning of understanding" (I wish that was original to me, but I believe I need to credit Tony Robbins for it). The question that so many of us avoid, much of the time, is a vital but dangerous one: "How do I know that's true?"I'll give you an example. I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, usually known as the "Mormons

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Despite any foreshadowing in my previous post and my absence of the last few days I'm not going to be leaving anytime soon...thank you for that sigh of relief. A change of focus is in order, however.These days I find myself less interested in events like Speaker Pelosi's elevation, Saddam's neck-stretching descent, almost anything on the nightly news, anything to do with 'celebrities,' and,

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Michael at Heliopolis:The bottom line is this: Heliopolis has been fun. Well. You brave little handful of wonderful, faithful readers who actually managed to stomach my dreck made it fun for me, at least. But it’s time I decide whether or not I’m actually going to do anything around here. And I think I’ve decided that I’m not. Not now. So, off to bed I go, full of so many things to say and no

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I recall from the movie Heartbreak Ridge one of the other Old Marines telling Clint Eastwood's Gunny Highway character that they're 0-1-1 in the wars they fought: "No wins, one loss -- Vietnam, and one tie -- Korea."I'm currently finishing up John Toland's In Mortal Combat: Korea 1950-1953 and I was especially struck by two insights I had while reading it; the parallels with the current war and

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Since blogging time is severely limited today, instead of one of the original, thoughtful posts (heh) that I have been working on, here's something from the delightfully named dammit.com that bears on my earlier posts on The Crowley-Parson-Heinlein-Hubbard-Cruise Connection (part I, part II):In which, in a universe eerily like our own, a young L. Ron Hubbard, er, John Michael Haley, really is

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It was intriguing to see how one book review in the New York Times prompted a flurry of activity in the blogosphere in defense of Robert A. Heinlein and his ideas—the irony being that the review wasn’t directly of Heinlein's work, but of John Scalzi’s The Ghost Brigades. The prompt and forceful reaction is mainly attributable to the reviewer's use of the tired old canard that Heinlein was an "

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Yes, I know that this is subjective. But the movie that got to me the most; the tightest, scariest, strangest movie with subtle undercurrents of humor and irony ever made:The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Not, NOT, Not the recent abortion with the inverted plot and ChiComs replaced by an eeeeevile Corporation and a host of other blasphemies; we will speak of it no more.If you've never seen this

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There has been a great deal of handwringing in the last few days over the lethal injection method of capital punishment. Is it cruel and unusual? Does the person being executed suffer?I'm absolutely with the people who are against the lethal injection method. It's far too easy and clean and clinical; meanwhile, no matter what the method, it takes far, far too long in America to get on with the

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I have heard David Horowitz mention his website DiscoverTheNetworks a couple of times on the radio in the last few months, but when I finally got around to visiting I was impressed--and really mindblown by the Visual Maps, which allow one to trace the connections between individuals, funders and foundations, and organizations.If one had been paying attention, one would already know that it's only

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I love the study and appreciation of langauges and their intricacies, and I love to laugh!So I take great pleasure in sharing these three snippets that have come my way in the last few days.From a forwarded message to 'Everyone' at work: I left a voice mail message, so I apologize for the duplicity of efforts.From an email from my new 'friend,' 'Jerry Kwame,' an 'accountant' at a 'Bank' in Ghana.

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A lot of pundits, including the excellent Mark Steyn, have written with some measure of gloom and despair about the pathetically low birthrates of Western Europe, Japan and other parts of the Functioning Core. But thanks to the lovely and talented Alexandra von Maltzan, we learn that there is a different demographic trend that may be good news for those of us who desire to retain liberty and

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A friend of mine who works for another government agency told me about how he was at a recent event with Sen. Maria Cantwell (D. WA.) and despite a large age difference and the fact that she's not a 'cover girl' type he found something about her presence extremely erotic.I think most men have probably experienced this phenomenon from time to time. You see or meet a woman who doesn't meet

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This rather breathless article over at NewScientist.com reminded me to ask some questions I've been meaning to blog about for some time; but first, excerpts:Home Schooling Special: Preach Your Children Wellby Amanda GefterTO THE unsuspecting visitor, Patrick Henry College looks like a typical American liberal-arts college tucked away amidst the rolling green farmlands of Virginia. Its curriculum

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For anyone who had, or might have, an interest in my posts on The Crowley-Parsons-Heinlein-Hubbard-Cruise Connection (part I, part II), here's a thorough biography by Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. While it's not a flattering portrait, I was struck by the author's direct links to Scientology's offical version of the same time periods, placed right in his

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And it seems pretty cool to me, though only a fraction of the posts are personally written by "The Hammer." The 'about:' The importance of the blogosphere in shaping and motivating the current conservative movement is unquestionable- not only has it served as an important tool in breaking through the liberal MSM clutter but it has helped to keep our elected officials true to principle. This

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I've read a good deal of fascinating material about Louisiana's political history, including several books about the colorful, powerful, immensely intelligent and intensely corrupt Huey Long, but that was another era.The fact that the voters of Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District have reelected Rep. William Jefferson, a guy that was found with $90,000 of FBI-marked bills in his freezer,

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Trolling the Web so that you don't have to!Deep Thought with a superb post on some disturbing signs in Japan...I believe that Japan is showing us nothing more, and nothing less, than the ultimate result of a materialist, secular nation. The rejection of religion and mysticism, the detachment of morals and values from absolute claims, and the embrace of the government as surrogate family are all

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Driving in to work this morning I was listening to the radio and naturally there was some discussion of Pearl Harbor Day, and the attack of December 7, 1941; then they played a clip of President Roosevelt's speech to Congress the next day asking for a declaration of war, and I was struck by the fact that it sounded like he said:Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the

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I discovered the very interesting Still Running Off at the Keyboard through a referral from Google--she was at the top, while I was number two.Here she ties together a lot of loose ends, indeed.As a Catholic who has obviously done her research on Robert Anton Wilson's books, Aleister Crowley and the OTO, Discordianism and even Bob Dobbs, Carrie Tomko has a blog with a breadth beyond the usual.

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As a guy with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree, I was naturally interested in this piece over at the Borg (er, Microsoft) Universe, "Are Liberal Arts Degrees Worth Anything?" I think they are worth plenty, and agree with this:A degree in a field such as engineering is like a blue-chip stock--an employer knows exactly what to expect, and the payoff tends to be positive and steady. A liberal

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I saved this picture months ago, intending to post it. The I forgot about it, until I rediscovered it a few minutes ago. The only point to this is that I enjoyed looking at it, and I hope you do too.

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The Good Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna has an extensive post about recent developments in the mushrooming effort to fight, and win against, the global jihad (plus a few other little distractions, as I identified in this post). Read about the aptly named Coalition to Preserve Civilization, the 910 Group and assorted fellow travelers there.Also, here is the excellent To the Point news site. I

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Because they have IDF Hotties, of course.Planck's Constant has generously provided an extensvie collection of additional inspiring images here.

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Having been aware of Sigmund, Carl and Alfred for some time, how is it that I've never pointed my meagre yet distinguished readership over there? It's a superb blog that you ought to add to your daily reading list. Now.From today's entry:There is a opposite, of course. Freedom supports righteousness and make the world a more civilized and moral place. Notwithstanding the reality that much of

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Since I have about a minute to work on the Blog today, I'll just give you a link I've been saving up for such an occasion (h/t Ghost Blog):What I believe but cannot prove......is that quantum physics teaches us to abandon the distinction between information and reality.Read more

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No, not a horror movie. Here is the post over at Stop the ACLU:I was in Las Vegas at the end of September and called into Jay at his e-radio show on WideAwakesRadio. I mentioned that I was going to go searching in the Mojave Desert to find a small cross that I’d read about that had been ordered removed by a federal judge after the ACLU sued. Jay mentioned that he’d like to see a picture of it,

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The always noteworthy Colossus has an update on his rededication:I'll tell you, there is one benefit to all of this, which is a kind of inner peace -- which people who know me can tell you is not an attribute I have in any large degree. I cannot effect much in the world around me. I cannot fix the problems of Iraq, I cannot make elections or even football games go my way, and I cannot stop the

Wahrheitnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132224.post-27394425362550107202006-11-22T21:40:00.000-08:002006-11-22T17:15:48.883-08:00

Just as Jesse Jackson of the so-called 'Rainbow/PUSH Coalition' has become the go-to guy for comment on all things 'racial' in the news media, it seems that these days the Council on American-Islamic Relations is the go-to for 'balance' in news stories and reports that touch upon Muslims and Islam in America.Now, you may have noticed that I used periods between the letters in the title of this

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Fun story about a Detroit-area high school guy who built a fusion reactor in his basement...but I hope they got this quote right, or he may unleash a fusion-powered laser on the Freep building:"Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbolic chamber," she said, adding that she promptly said no. But, when he came asking about the nuclear fusion machine, she relented.I assume she meant a hyperbaric

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For some reason, this just cracks me up: The former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega was a defender of Nicaragua's limited abortion rights and a critic of the Catholic church when he led a left-wing Nicaraguan government in the 1980s. He has since been reconciled with the church and has become a strident opponent of abortion. Public opinion in Nicaragua, which is estimated to be 85% Roman

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Sure, she's a scum-sucking, life-draining, parasite-on-the-productive collectivist, but she's also a hot-looking 53-year-old Frenchwoman. I won't say I hope she wins, but will say that I'd rather look at her than Jacques Chirac.

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The irrepressible Sam points out the 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English, and being the language geek that I am, I couldn't be happier perusing the list and thinking of folks I know who 'offend' from time to time. Not that it makes you a bad person.I, however, conceived an unusual (and perhaps excessive) craving for investigating the vagaries of English sometime around my

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I still remember my stunned feeling, and what I'll call my all-encompassing existential resentment, when I realized as a young lad that if someone wanted to kill me and didn't care if they got caught, there might be nothing I could do about it. It was the summer of 1968 and I was enjoying a stay at the home of my beloved great-grandma; I'll never know why that one particular morning I awoke at 5

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