Survival

This Deputy Mayor in charge of Public Safety (the longer the title, the less he does and the more you pay for it; after all, look at his suit) advises this man to simply give a robber whatever he wants, and hope that he doesn’t get hurt.  And if he gets hurt, he will heal, and that’s better than using a firearm in self defense.  The firearm, after all, will escalate the situation.  Not that the perpetrator hasn’t already escalated the situation with the robbery and threat to life in the first place, though.  Nah.  If you use deadly force to protect yourself and yours, well, now you’re the worse of the two:

Of course, try telling that to this woman, who did everything the robbers wanted her to do, handed over all the money and everything, and yet they still shot her to death.

Police said Blue took two drawers containing an undetermined amount of cash. He started walking toward the exit, but stopped and fired a shot at Simpson-Beaver, 48, of Merrillville, documents state. Police said he walked behind the store counter and fired another round at Simpson-Beaver’s head. Jim Lilley, Merrillville’s chief of detectives, said it’s uncertain why Simpson-Beaver was shot during the robbery because she complied with the demands for money. Blue has not provided a statement to police. “It’s ruthless for him to do what he did,” Lilley said.

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Chamberlain

One of the finest books in my library about World War Two is Troublesome Young Men, a saga of the Chamberlain Parliament of the late 1930′s.  As we know, he was ousted in favor of Churchill by the Tory government already in power.  But the large history we know is not the point, and Churchill is not the star.  The look into the psychology of the British ruling class was able to make sense to me the wonder of how Britain stayed out of the war until their turn for being conquered almost came about.

We are on the cusp of war, of nuclear annihilation, by a rogue, self-sufficient power manned by a killer who states his goals and aims as clearly and emphatically as Hitler did in his book Mein Kampf.  Never mind the primary rounds (a.k.a. American Idol, Presidential Edition) or the general election.  Obama has been made to understand that we need to get Al Queda, keep Guantanamo open, and at least address Iran, in spite of his other foibles.  We cannot replace a sitting President like Parliament can replace a Prime Minister at the ring of the Division Bell.  But it looks like there is some invisible hand who keeps Obama stuck off of stupid in regards to grave overseas matters, and demarcated this one area as off bounds to his naturally America destructive behavior.

One day the book on the heavies will appear, and we can know and appreciate the men or women who hammered him into the hawk mode.  Hopefully, they can also bully him into keeping Iran from reaching its goals.  Then unlike the MP’s of Chamberlain’s rule, we won’t have to ask why they let things get to the brink when Iran laid out its plans all along.  Except now the question will be why didn’t we knock out the nuclear program before Iran was able to kill so many tens of millions, lay whole swaths of the earth unlivable, and subject themselves to the destruction of the counterstrike.

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Philosophes

We don’t have a tradition of professional philosophers in the United States.  People whose actual paid job is to sit around cafe’s, look cool, smoke crappy cigarettes, and sound like they know a thing or two.  The closest we came was with the Beat Poets, and even they had to sell books to eat, and weren’t hired exclusively to rub their chins and pontificate.    We more highly value our down home, folksy, “wisdom from experience” folk, like Will Rogers.  In France, however, philosopher is what the drug addicted rock star is here:  the subject of magazine covers and articles, whose lives the paparazzi consider worthy of covering, with the public hanging on every story of what they’ll do next.  Every country has its uncommon stars, from Russian chess players to Chinese ping pong players to Canadian curling sliders.  We have the Gosselins, France has BHL.

Bernard-Henri Levy, who is so renowned in France he just goes by his initials BHL (heck, Cher still had to go by a whole first name), just got busted out big-time for quoting an imaginary philosopher, Jean-Bapitste Botul, the founder of the philosophical school of, er, Botulism, get it?  Ha!  BHL didn’t.

BHL is so screwed.  This is exactly like when Milli Vanilli was busted out for lip synching.  His career is as over as Al Gore’s as Global Warming Spokesman.  I wonder what Will Rogers would say about all of this.

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Army Green

The Army, in all its infinite wisdom, is changing the service uniform once again.  Once it finally got the Army Green uniform, er, uniform, they decide to ditch it.  The Army Green wasn’t the nicest looking uniform on pasty white dudes like me, or very dark skinned blacks either, but at least it distinguished the branch, as the new one looks like a knockoff of the Navy uniform.  Plus, it’s way too reminiscent of the Civil War uniform, which has to be sand in the shorts of Southern soldiers, who make up a large share of the body of the Army.

I find the WW II khaki and OD green uniform to be the best looking uniform the Army ever had, and a lot of other national armies still have that as their army color, so it kind of fits a standard, but who has given a hoot about what I think lately, so there to that.

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Peace Prize Winner Bombs the Moon

The very day Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, NASA hit the moon with a rocket to test the amount of water on the moon.  Oh, don’t ask me how that’s supposed to work out.  Of course, liberals are upset at this bombing campaign:

We need to communicate to the Moon. Talk to her in our dreams, trances, or meditations, and prepare her for this shock and wound as best we can. Hold her, send out imaginative protection to her, and put our dream bodies out there in front of the bomb. Collectively, we can sabotage the bombing or by imagining all manner of things going wrong, or encouraging the Moon to increase her own magnetic shields. Sing to her. Give her back just a tiny portion of all that she has done for us.

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Is It, or Isn’t It?

Interesting news about the Lost Ark.  The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Church announced that it was time to reveal the Ark.  The next day, he retracted the offer.

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Goth

After dressing up like this all year long

what do Goths dress like on Halloween?

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Mandy Barnett

Now how come I don’t know about this perfect female country singer?

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Speed and Red Light Cameras

Welcome camerafraud.com to the blogroll!  If you have these devil cameras coming your way, hopefully they’ll have something to read up on to help you in your battle.

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Hammer’s Blog

Hammer is back. He posted this.  I stole it.

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