A Chicken Is Not Pillage

My Weekend Amusement

"Jhwygirl" calls me a liar for posting her exact words written, and then claims I owe her a defense against her accusations.

I’d expect that someone being called a liar – twice – would actually make some effort to prove me wrong.

No.  Sorry, little Puritopian.  I don't owe you shit.  If you want to prove that I'm lying, then offer evidence. 

Here’s a link to my twitter feed. Here’s a link to to the specific tweet in question that you intentionally obfuscated.

She tries, except the link she thinks she posted is broken, not that it would have proven me a liar in any case at all.  So sad.  You failed, kitten.  My response:

J’girl, your link doesn’t work. I didn’t take D, Gregory to task. That’s a lie. I took you to task for exactly what you wrote. Please do try again.

and

Now this is kind of funny:

I’d expect that someone being called a liar – twice – would actually make some effort to prove me wrong.

Expecting someone to react to lies is a wingnut kind of thing, and grossly arrogant. Faux News does that. Aaron Flint does that. Rush Limbaugh does that. The Havre Daily Corrupter does that. Jhwygirl does that. Just saying …

Given the behavior of the drama squad at 4 and 20, I expect this entire exchange to be deleted.  If it isn't then good on them.  If it is, at least it is preserved here.

Just like the U of M, and the city of Missoula, and the Puritopian illiterati these people need to get a fricking grip.

 

But hey, they have poems ...

Nuance?

A few reminders for those who have become so learned that they've gotten stupid about the most basic things.

A linear function does not need to describe a "straight line".  It simply means that it's variable or variables are constrained by at least one constant.  Non-linear functions are (generally speaking) not constrained by a constant, but still subject to the extremity of inputs.  Regardless, it remains clear that all functions will moderate (become more controllable, more predictable) the more that extreme inputs are removed.  (And further clarification for the stupid, high school geometry *is* high school math.)

Triangulation is the effort to identify two points on the given line by taking a  position that is not directly between those points.  In political terms, it means staking a different position between the points of extreme, not on the line between them, in an attempt to draw one linear point towards the center.  Those who subscribe to triangulation as a net bad are truly engaging in straight line thinking.  They're being stupid.  One can triangulate by taking a point outside the linear boundaries of Democrats and Republicans to pull the median volume of the triangle to the right or the left.  The right has been very successful at that, using shock doctrine to accomplish the effort of pulling the popular will further to the right.  The deeply stupid scream "nuance" while thinking in terms of straight lines and blaming anyone who wants to move the triangle's volume in a favorable direction for not just wizarding such a miracle up.  A reminder.  Triangulation can take place outside the boundaries of the set extremes on the run of the triangle such that the volume moves leftward.  That's what many on the left are screaming for, but don't understand how they're shooting themselves in the foot by replacing movement with magical quantum leap.  Yes, if "we organize" this magical jump to personal satisfaction could happen .... And monkeys could fly out of my butt.  What organizing can do is move the volume of the triangle in a favored direction.  The Tea Party is committed to doing that, and that's why they will support Mitt Romney, even though they hate him.

Vacuums (discretely) do not exist in a vacuum.  If you remove all the air from a bottle inside a chamber filled with chlorine gas, it will not magically fill with liberal fairy dust.  If you uncork that bottle, it will fill with toxic gas, and it will do so in such a hurry, it's likely to break the bottle.  Removing Obama, Bauchus and Tester will not open the way for progressive heroes who will save us.  It will allow in Romney, Gingrich, Rehberg.  The vacuum will be replaced with toxic representation.  The deeply stupid think that somehow, some way, this will lead to 'organizing' that takes control of our governance.  I'd certainly appreciate it if even one of these so-called smart folk could explain how we're supposed to get to self-governance from that point, especially since they've rejected the idea of violence (which for the record, I have not.)

Finally, it is the ultimate of stupid to rely on chaos theory when you've already bought into Illuminati conspiracy.  Politics is chaos, if you actually wish to ignore the variables that make you uncomfortable and focus on those you prefer.  It is the height of stupidity to claim that politics is chaos when you've spent years insulting others because they don't understand how controlled politics actually is.   To claim that the rich choose our candidates and manipulate our representation and yet it's all CHAOS is truly and deeply stupid.  Pick one, Mark, because only the stupid think both can be real.  Either way, my post still holds true.  Defeat the extreme and you're closer to getting what you want (or didn't you think that chaos was describable by math as well?  Sorry kitten, it is.)

Finally, I appreciate Tokarski affording me another 'Wanda' moment.  I'm glad for him that he was born a white male American and never had to want beyond his desire to be 'different'.  I'm happy that he continues to read people smarter than himself, and pigeonhole them into his particular delusion, his mythology.  This gives me many laughs.

Otto:  Apes don't read philosophy!

Wanda: Yes, they do, Otto.  They just don't understand it.

Update:  Shorter Tokarski response:  I don't really know what he's talking about so I'll just denegrate it now,  and insult the reader's intelligence later.

 

New Years Comedy

It's a common and somewhat threadbare line of comedy that people make New Year's resolutions and then break them often in record time.  Here's an example I find to be laugh-out-loud funny.

The Delusional One boldly pronounces :

2012 is my Kailey free year.

So, what is his first blog post of the New Year?  A conspiracy theory focusing on Montana Cowgirl, Left in the West, and of course, myself.  I doubt that smashes any records for breaking a New Year's resolution, but it did make my morning a little more amusing.

Mission Accomplished?

Okay. So. It's over.

Last weekend, my beloved said something in jest that I love her for, and I feel deeply today.  "I like my beer like I like my man, bitter."  I am bitter, and this is one of the biggest reasons.  I began commenting on blogs outside of my good friend's place because I was horrified that we would attack a nation based on shoddy intel and do so blatantly.  I began this blog in part because I wanted a personal forum to rail against the obvious injustice being perpetrated abroad and here at home.  All voices against the great Iraqi adventure fell on truly deaf ears.  We had invaded by the time I started this blog, and little changed for so very long.

I certainly didn't expect anyone to listen to little ol' me.  But I did expect that we would be smarter as a country, full of voters.  Instead, I have been subjected to all kinds of claims that I don't understand or care about international affairs.  I have listened as jackwads, most of which were dead silent 9 years ago when we invaded,  told me that we would never leave Iraq.  I  have not so patiently waited while my betters told me that we would never have less than 50 thousand troops in country and our $50,000,000 bases would never be turned over to the Iraqis.  Not anyone reading this hasn't heard the jokes or seen the cartoons about how we should just 'glass' the entire region.

I guess I'm not so bitter as I am tired.  The assholes who've all told me how wrong my country is will not ever admit how they were wrong in prediction.  The money's already been spent and the lives, 4500+ lives, have already been lost.  But yet, the American Empire marches on.  And those who claim such were wrong before and remain wrong now.  Somehow, I'm certain, this is my fault.  Yeah, I'm pretty bitter, and tired.

I am weakly and wearily happy that our country is turning Iraq over to the Iraqis.  I wish them luck.  I wish our troops a great "Welcome Home".  I want healing to begin.

But, the Iraq war caused more than just death and suffering.  It has polarized the opinions of people more than I can express, and caused a rise in what was already a burgeoning police state here at home.   John McCain thinks that our declaring an end to the Iraq war signals that the terrorists have won.  I'm certain that his buddy LIEberman shares that view.  Strangely, those views appear the most harmless.  What does damage is the fact that Congress has avoided responsibility for the horror they brought, and now blame the guy who actually ended this stuff.  The damage is multiplied because the left seeks desperately to believe the message from the right.  This will not end well.

The authoritarian state grows.  I've been warning about this for 8 years.  Iraq, and the thinking that led to it's invasion, is precisely what gives credence to the crap spewed today.  We needn't worry about invading Iran.  That will happen when the Repulicants take over governance because they keep the super-secret knowledge of what will help us internationally.  We *really* need to worry about that stealth Republican in the White House.  Obama needs to lose and that will make the Iraq war all worth while.

~sigh~

No.  No mission was accomplished here, save enriching Halliburton and Blackwater.

Thank you to the troops who did what they were asked.  Thank you.  I will do whatever I can to help you come to grips with the horrors you've been sold.  I hope for you that life goes on and becomes worthwhile.  (I work in providing materials to higher ed, and that's not a hollow offer I make.)

The Drama Queen Haz A Sad

The neighborhood drunk was apparently unhappy with his efforts at sympathy.  Not content with his sloppy "I Luv You, Man', he again attempts to turn the beige house against others in the neighborhood by mischaracterizing what has been written by others.  It's a classic troll.  And the Drama Queen bites, hook, line and sinker.

JC stupidly pens:

If politics is only all about process–the nuts and bolts an mechanics of electoral politics (the fluffery), then there is no room for vision or leadership, or building one’s actions out of a base built on solid principles, or motivated by the vision of a charismatic leader like MLK.

Well allow me to retort.

Not only is your premise flawed, JC, but your conclusion follows from nothing.  Politics isn't "only" about process, as you state. I've never said that, and neither has anyone I know.  Some of us focus on process, because that's who we are, and what we do.  What you've just stated is that those who are not you are denying what you desire.  We're stopping you from getting what you want, in your narrow mind.  Actually, we agree about much of what we want.  I just think you're a full-of-shit emoprog when you deny that there is a process by which we reach such a destination.

Here's a clue or two for you.  MLK is dead.  Get over it.  Nor was he solely responsible for the Civil Rights act.  Politicians passed that act, y'know, legislators?   Those folk get elected by a process.  At no point does a process like that negate a principle, or any of the principles which drive it.   What does negate that process and the principles behind it is whining about the process folk who are attempting to get you what you want because we haven't succeeded in providing you with a 'leader'.  Grow up.  This ain't recess, and you don't need the teacher to protect you from the bullies or demand that you get chosen first for dodgeball.

JC:

I’m learning that my cynicism needs to be tempered with letting others have their own experiences.

Seems like you need to learn a little bit faster, kitten.  No one owes you a "leader".   That isn't anyone elses role.  But we all do have  a part to play.  For some of us, like your daughter and myself, that part is process.

Just as Tokarski keeps wailing that "we" need to organize, and won't do a damned thing to accomplish that, JC keeps calling for a leader and refuses to be one.  No problem.  That happens all the time.  JC has been writing a great deal of good stuff about the Occupy Wallstreet protests.  But he won't go, he isn't there.  He would, no doubts, talk smack about others who aren't there because this is the Most Important Thingy Ever,  but yet he's not there.  Think on that for a second.  I'd bet that he doesn't have the money and he has to work, and that's why he hasn't joined this brave protest.  You know what?  That's process.  That is what process folk focus on, like me.  That's why I'm not there.  For me it was a simple decision, as I'm certain it was for the Drama Queen.  But his angst is so much more important.  Why would that be?  Why isn't he challenging Mark, the champion of extra party organizing,  for sitting on his ass in Colorado and instead JC's  uttering bullshit about what process folk do?

~sob~ "I luv you man, an him, an him too, an ..."

This sad tale has played out enough to be a cliche.  The increasingly drunk fool travels to every abode at the block party, telling the folks at the beige house that the folk at the gray house all have the clap.  He tells the folk at the brown house that the folk at the beige house are saying that they 'have the clap', and then tells the folks at the blue house that everyone is saying they have the clap, but really it's the folk at the gray house who are diseased.   Regardless of any objection, he'll stop every now and again to piss on someone's shrubbery, forget to zip up, and then mortify some passerby with tales of his superhero mental powers and going native on his wild safaris.  At random times he'll run from one end of the block to the other, proudly proclaiming that The World Crime League is out to get him, and all of us as well!  This he does, of course, before hiding behind someone's screen door or the random Hollyhock.  At least a couple of times, he'll saunter smoothly (at least as he sees it) up to someone, give a false name and tell them everything that is wrong about them.

As his personal prowess grows in his own mind, he will attempt to pick fights with just about everyone.  Some will attempt to reason with him, some will ignore him and a few will grab him by the face, tell him to leave, and throw his discombobulated ass to the sidewalk.  Those will become his 'mortal enemies', (he is a superhero, you know.)  He will spin tales about how he defeated those enemies, just as the Spartans defeated the Persians at Thermopylae.   Besides, he will sigh, they aren't really worth fighting anyway ...

Late in the evening, or early in the morning depending on your perspective, he will throw his arm around those who can barely tolerate his presence, as opposed to those who won't, and utter the slurred speech we all expect:

"I luv you, man!"

Hey Lizard

Check this out.

Now, be certain to tell me all about *your* base.

Halt, Hammerzeit!

Can't touch this.

(Yes, correlation is not causation.)

The emoprogs and Professional Left can't abide another Senate seat for Jon Tester or Presidential term for Barack Obama.  Meanwhile, in the real world, over 550,000 contributors donated more to Barack Obama in the second quarter of fundraising than all of the Republicant candidates combined.  Jon Tester out-raised Dennis Rehberg by $300,000, and totally kicks his ass in terms of cash on hand.  So, if I were a campaign manager, I wouldn't be at all afraid to "punch hippies".  It doesn't seem to mean nothin'.

YAY! For The Fail Of American Companies

You tell me.  Punching hippies, or celebrating the failure of the nation?  I think both, and am deeply disgusted because of such stupidity.

 

P.S.  I really am happier avoiding the rightwing websites.  How weak that I can't follow through.

Yes, And John Wayne Gacy Was A Clown

By all accounts he was a good one, entertaining and somewhat artistic.  Of course he was also a serial-murdering psychopath, but what does that really mean to YOU?  Can you find fault with a man who so loved children?  You love children, don't you?  I mean you obviously agree with the guy.  You're sympatico; you should be friends because you want the same things.  You're one in the same, save for that slaughtering people and burying them in your basement thingy.  I'll bet he loved puppies.  You love puppies, don't you?

I found inspiration for this bit of heavy handed satire from an argument that should be laughed at, derided, and generally vomitted upon by any thinking human being.  Small wonder of irony that I find it promoted by Nick Gillespie at "Reason", so called.  There's nothing reasonable about that, at all.