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Fire Jimmy Fallon (and his bitch wife, too)

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[Update: This post was one of several in response to Jimmy Fallon’s band playing “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” when Michele Bachmann walked onstage, and incomprehensibly, all that happened was a band member was “severely reprimanded”. I (still) find that unacceptable, and I fired back. Naturally, I am sure that Mrs. Fallon is a nice lady–which is THE POINT.]

How do you like it Jimmy?  I aim to see you fired.  Yeah, seriously, no offense, etc, whatever, but you and your bitch wife gotta go.  I know you’ll understand.

Your apology is neither required nor desired.

Jimmy Fallon and Wife from http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/3295625455/in/photostream/

 Jimmy Fallon & wife & Producer, Nancy Juvonen | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

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The Point

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The Constitution is the instrument by which we arrange for our own government to act in accordance with the noble principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence.  Therefore, it is sometimes the Court, sometimes the States, sometimes the populace, and so forth which I support in a given struggle, so long as that actor forwards a position more in keeping with the purposes in the Declaration.

I do not find it difficult at all to “reconcile” Constitutional conservatism with advances in society which are beneficial.  The three branches of the federal government act to check and balance one another, just as the states, the feds, and the numerous individuals act to check and balance one another.

It is entirely conservative to support change if that change brings a … Continue reading →

Of, By, and For: Lincoln vs Obama

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Abraham Lincoln was guided by an over-arching belief in the rightness of our nation’s founding concepts:

…we here highly resolve … that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Barack Obama also believes in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people–he just thinks that those are different groups of people. That is exactly the difference between conservatives and progressives.

Progressives believe that the most intelligent and most moral of society must be in charge, and they believe that systems of credentials established within progressive enclaves can reliably indicate those qualities. They believe that this ruling class must have the power to compel the human development of those more backward or more simple than … Continue reading →

Night Train

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Not a bad way to travel!

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Okay, I’ll start studying in a minute. Just wanted to share my good fortune at catching a sweet train to Tokyo. Unlike those nationalized JR cattle cars, on Keikyu, a nice ride us no extra charge. Just catch the right train.
Hint: it will be red.

SQL Triggers

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A fact which seems buried to me is that an after trigger actually does still have access to both the inserted and deleted virtual tables.

So if you have been struggling to re-implement a simple insert, update, or delete because you feel you must use an instead of trigger in order to access the values in inserted or deleted, relax.  You’re doing it wrong.

I can beef this up with some code, and I suppose I will, but the code is not the issue–it’s the concept, and once I learned to rely on the inserted and deleted tables persisting until my trigger itself goes out of scope, my life got much simpler.

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Draft: Of, By, and For: Lincoln vs Obama

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Doing research for my “Three Speeches” paper (which has been expressed  so far in my Marxism of Barack Obama posts), I noticed a defining difference between progressives and conservatives.  The jumping-off point is actually a line from the Gettysburg Address, which at any rate is worth reproducing in whole as often as possible:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of … Continue reading →

Electoral Treason

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As I discuss in my post on Ethical Resistance, the ends are not so much what determines who is a domestic enemy of the Constitution.  Face, it, many people would like to change the Constitution, and that desire is not unconstitutional.  No matter what changes are made, if they are made through valid, Constitutional method, the change is “in bounds”.  If each change withstands scrutiny, and the constitution itself is changed to allow new or different methods, and then those methods are used to effect further change, this is all constitutional.  This is why a defense of the Constitution as it currently stands is critical.  Right now the biggest threat I see to the future of the Republic is the collaborative … Continue reading →

Re-Organized!

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If you are seeing this but expected a specific article, you probably followed an old link.  Things have changed.  Everything is still here–none of the content has changed, not one tiddle or jot.  The URLs are all new, however, so that external links (FaceBook, other blogs, Google, and so forth) now take you to, er, nowhere.  And so this blog finds you and brings you to the front page, so that if you like, you can use one of the many navigation tools (category listings, popular posts, hot topics, even a search box hiding upper-right in the green) to find what you came here for.  Personally, I recommend grabbing a category from the wordcloud on the top of the right-hand column, and diving in.

Thank you!

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Sometimes, Conservative Nostalgia is Progressivism

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Right down to the de-industrializing impulse that winds up massacring intellectuals and reducing millions to the enslaved subsistence farmers, too busy starving to fight back.  A friend of mine, who is a good guy and a committed social and fiscal conservative, posted the following, for which I took him to task.  I do not doubt his commitment or his intents, but he is whistling past the grave here, revealing a potentially “fatal” logic bomb.  I have replicated the whole thing below.

My conservative friend:

Thought for the day: Two hundred years ago, an American spent most of his day WORKING to hunt, farm and anything else that provided the basics of food, shelter and clothing to survive. They were, of necessity, self-reliant and independent so it’s no wonder … Continue reading →