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Last parts of university residence - moved out. Goodbye, and thanks for all the memories. Maybe I’ll get back there at some point, probably for a football game of some sort. Maybe not. Either way, that chapter of my life has closed. In the next two days, I get to prioritize and sort. And then, we load everything up, and we go. I’ll make sure that someone checks my mailbox one last time after I get my forwarding set up. Which means that I have to go to the post office at least once before I go.
Anyway, going into other matters, as a bit of counterpoint to Liberal Seagull and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bradhicks‘s ideas on how voting is best conducted for maximum results, David Weigel at Reason magazine suggests that Cindy Sheehan could run the country as well as any politician, and that a mass write-in campaign for her would be effective at breaking the duopoly of American politics, assuming enough people got behind the write-in.
Also, officially noting something I made reference to in another entry, Jose Padilla was convicted of being a terrorist supporter. If anything, this says that any sort of greebok fruhampton zed can be considered potential terrorist communication. So speak clearly, plainly, and be sure to swear approrpiately for the government agents listening in on you.
Since one of my great conservative viewpoint clearinghouses has come back on-line, the Townhall parade will likely begin again. Diana West says that the rules of engagement for the military are getting young men killed, implying that it would be better to abandon them against an enemy that doesn’t follow those rules. To play a game, both sides must agree to the rules. If having any sort of moral justification is important, of course, then the rules will apply, even if they end up in cases where tactical disasters happen. Thomas Sowell wants more tax revenues used for infrastructure repair, rather than political pet projects, and he'd like to see alternative energy being used, such as nuclear power. Both of which are fine points, and would do well to be heeded by those in the government. Best in show tonight, however, is Lisa DePasquale putting up a response to the Yellow Elephant question by saying that those who choose not to enlist because they wouldn’t make the requirements are not hypocrites. Fair enough, but then those people shouldn’t be complaining about how the military is understaffed and needs more people. Wait, was that three Townhall articles where relatively sane points of view were being expressed? This is not Bizarro World, I’m sure - I just sent back some dude who I got to speak his name backward.
The following article makes me wonder just how much of our lives are our own, assuming, of course, that all that is said is true and actively being practiced. If nothing else, it helps to explain how music can induce moods and influence them. The Battle For Your Mind takes a look at how television, revivialist preachers, and low-frequency waves can all be put to the use of inducing altered states of consciousness - hypnotic and suggestible states. If what the article says is true, though, it means that we’re being exposed to it all the time, and that we may not be able to fight it off. Which probably says something about the effectiveness of hypnosis, that only some small fragment of the population becomes fanatically and violently devoted to spreading a warped message. With that in mind, let’s listen to a Sunday morning prayer about schooling. And then, just to knock some scales from our eyes, enjoy The Islamic Invasion. Let’s see, shifting translations, playing up the warlike nature of YHWH and Islam, without noticing the similarities, the “Founders were Christians and America is blessed with True Believers” argument, the return of Israel and defeat of Palestine, and then the eventual destruction of Islam as the great deceit that it is. I won’t deny that there’s war in Islam’s past and its holy books and statements. There’s also war in Tanakh and probably quite a bit of commentary on wars. The Christian Foundational Writings have... significantly less war and doom, until you move down into the Apocalypse of John (assuming memory serves correctly, throughout the Gospels and Acts, the followers of the Christ do not wage war and destruction. That only happens in the history of Christianity beyond the foundational writings. Memory may be faulty, however, so corrections are encouraged.) So, if we go strictly by the books that are unique to the Christian religion, how again do we have people claiming that Christians should behave like Daleks?
Going into technology news, the AT&T version of the BlackBerry 8220 has been nerfed, so that it doesn't appear to be competitive with or superior to the iPhone. [Worms]Stu-pid[/Worms]. Way to go on the foot-shooting department there. Going half woo-hoo and half D’oh!, a suit seeking class action status has been filed against the RIAA, member companies, AOL/Time Warner, and the person that installed Kazaa on the computer of the defendant served with the legal notice. Good that they’re seeking to force the cabals to actually have evidence and confirm reality before sending out suits, not so good that the person also expects AOL to have magically known to shut off and censor the copyright-infringing content.
Last on the docket is making cute-looking lunches for little amounts of money - not quite dirty deeds done dirt cheap, but a way of putting color and variety into a boxed lunch. For those that get obsessive, they can do wondrous things with time and practice. For the rest of us, though, it’s a way of making cute boxed lunches.
So, another relatively little news day. Only a couple more days before the big drive. I hope I can fit all my essentials into my car. Having some of the optionals wouldn’t be bad, either.
Anyway, going into other matters, as a bit of counterpoint to Liberal Seagull and
bradhicks‘s ideas on how voting is best conducted for maximum results, David Weigel at Reason magazine suggests that Cindy Sheehan could run the country as well as any politician, and that a mass write-in campaign for her would be effective at breaking the duopoly of American politics, assuming enough people got behind the write-in.Also, officially noting something I made reference to in another entry, Jose Padilla was convicted of being a terrorist supporter. If anything, this says that any sort of greebok fruhampton zed can be considered potential terrorist communication. So speak clearly, plainly, and be sure to swear approrpiately for the government agents listening in on you.
Since one of my great conservative viewpoint clearinghouses has come back on-line, the Townhall parade will likely begin again. Diana West says that the rules of engagement for the military are getting young men killed, implying that it would be better to abandon them against an enemy that doesn’t follow those rules. To play a game, both sides must agree to the rules. If having any sort of moral justification is important, of course, then the rules will apply, even if they end up in cases where tactical disasters happen. Thomas Sowell wants more tax revenues used for infrastructure repair, rather than political pet projects, and he'd like to see alternative energy being used, such as nuclear power. Both of which are fine points, and would do well to be heeded by those in the government. Best in show tonight, however, is Lisa DePasquale putting up a response to the Yellow Elephant question by saying that those who choose not to enlist because they wouldn’t make the requirements are not hypocrites. Fair enough, but then those people shouldn’t be complaining about how the military is understaffed and needs more people. Wait, was that three Townhall articles where relatively sane points of view were being expressed? This is not Bizarro World, I’m sure - I just sent back some dude who I got to speak his name backward.
The following article makes me wonder just how much of our lives are our own, assuming, of course, that all that is said is true and actively being practiced. If nothing else, it helps to explain how music can induce moods and influence them. The Battle For Your Mind takes a look at how television, revivialist preachers, and low-frequency waves can all be put to the use of inducing altered states of consciousness - hypnotic and suggestible states. If what the article says is true, though, it means that we’re being exposed to it all the time, and that we may not be able to fight it off. Which probably says something about the effectiveness of hypnosis, that only some small fragment of the population becomes fanatically and violently devoted to spreading a warped message. With that in mind, let’s listen to a Sunday morning prayer about schooling. And then, just to knock some scales from our eyes, enjoy The Islamic Invasion. Let’s see, shifting translations, playing up the warlike nature of YHWH and Islam, without noticing the similarities, the “Founders were Christians and America is blessed with True Believers” argument, the return of Israel and defeat of Palestine, and then the eventual destruction of Islam as the great deceit that it is. I won’t deny that there’s war in Islam’s past and its holy books and statements. There’s also war in Tanakh and probably quite a bit of commentary on wars. The Christian Foundational Writings have... significantly less war and doom, until you move down into the Apocalypse of John (assuming memory serves correctly, throughout the Gospels and Acts, the followers of the Christ do not wage war and destruction. That only happens in the history of Christianity beyond the foundational writings. Memory may be faulty, however, so corrections are encouraged.) So, if we go strictly by the books that are unique to the Christian religion, how again do we have people claiming that Christians should behave like Daleks?
Going into technology news, the AT&T version of the BlackBerry 8220 has been nerfed, so that it doesn't appear to be competitive with or superior to the iPhone. [Worms]Stu-pid[/Worms]. Way to go on the foot-shooting department there. Going half woo-hoo and half D’oh!, a suit seeking class action status has been filed against the RIAA, member companies, AOL/Time Warner, and the person that installed Kazaa on the computer of the defendant served with the legal notice. Good that they’re seeking to force the cabals to actually have evidence and confirm reality before sending out suits, not so good that the person also expects AOL to have magically known to shut off and censor the copyright-infringing content.
Last on the docket is making cute-looking lunches for little amounts of money - not quite dirty deeds done dirt cheap, but a way of putting color and variety into a boxed lunch. For those that get obsessive, they can do wondrous things with time and practice. For the rest of us, though, it’s a way of making cute boxed lunches.
So, another relatively little news day. Only a couple more days before the big drive. I hope I can fit all my essentials into my car. Having some of the optionals wouldn’t be bad, either.
