Some people are certainly spending a lot of time trying to convince us it's not a duck, but I don't think a lot of people are buying it.
Several people should be fire, starting with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. I'd follow that up with the Director of the FBI, who told his people to say that they didn't think it was terrorism.
I'd also fire all of the people involved in the decision to make our military bases criminal empowerment zones by not having enough armed guards there.
They need it to not be a duck. Either they were completely oblivious to the fact that a duck was among them, or they knew it and could not or would not do anything about it.
What did they know and when did they know it? I heard that for nearly 8 years. Now it's my turn to ask.
A newsroom comprised entirely of leftists/liberals is no more capable of ideological objectivity than an all-white newsroom would be of racial objectivity, or an all-male newsroom of gender objectivity.
Captain Louis Renault
"Round Up the Usual Suspects."
The Drawn Cutlass Philosophy
Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect, and don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security, it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
The Foe
When I am free to walk the streets of Mecca or Medina as the agnostic I am and receive nothing but curious glances, I will believe Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance.
Sign On. You Know You Want To.
A Few Words From Some Founding Fathers
All Men Are Created Equal. (Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father)
But Differ Greatly In the Sequel. (Fisher Ames, Founding Father)
Jeff Cooper's Rules of Gun Safety
All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.
Bob's Addendum To Cooper's Rules
A Gun is not a Toy. Don't Play With It.
Bob's Theory of Hush Puppies
Bob's Theory of Hush Puppies: The best hush puppies are oblong shaped, rather like dog turds. The worst ones are spherical, like balls. The spherical ones are usually made from the recipe on a pre-packaged box of hush puppy mix.
Restaurant Ratings
My restaurant ratings, mostly intended for BBQ restaurants, will be on a 1-5 scale, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. Unlike most reviewers, I don't intend to play games with the rating scale by introducing fractions such as "2 and 1/2" or "4 and 3/4," I've always considered that stupid and a signal that the reviewer is trying to avoid making an honest 1-5 judgment.
Here is the breakdown of the ratings:
1 out of 5: waste of time, crap, unable to finish eating; apathy by staff/ownership
2 out of 5: edible, but no effort to impress; staff/management going through motions; desultory.
3 out of 5: average; reasonably good food, moderate effort by staff/management
4 out of 5: good; tasty, well-prepared food, staff alert, restaurant clean.
5 out of 5: great; excellent food, cooked fresh. Staff attentive and proactive, management responsive to complaints. Restaurant spotless.
On Self-Reliance
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
4 comments:
Good one!
Yeah, it's a duck.
Some people are certainly spending a lot of time trying to convince us it's not a duck, but I don't think a lot of people are buying it.
Several people should be fire, starting with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. I'd follow that up with the Director of the FBI, who told his people to say that they didn't think it was terrorism.
I'd also fire all of the people involved in the decision to make our military bases criminal empowerment zones by not having enough armed guards there.
They need it to not be a duck. Either they were completely oblivious to the fact that a duck was among them, or they knew it and could not or would not do anything about it.
What did they know and when did they know it? I heard that for nearly 8 years. Now it's my turn to ask.
Apparently we have to actually see a finger on a trigger, before we can openly notice that something MIGHT be amiss.
And even then we have to continually repeat "its not about religion... its not about religion".
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