Ball Diamond Ball

First off, they both suck.

Second is why. In RedLetterMedia’s epic review of the Star Wars prequels, one of the first plot points he assails is that two Jedi Knights were sent to resolve a dispute over the taxation of trade routes. It’s bad enough that this is the plot, and RLM has covered that. What’s worse is *why* this is the plot, and I haven’t heard anybody yet put the shoe leather to George Lucas’ backside on this score. Allow me.

Lucas is a progressive’s progressive, and it shows in his progressive movies. When you hear conservatives complain about leftist bias in all over the culture, but they can’t explain why, this is precisely the sort of thing we’re talking about.

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John Campbell fails to win OCGOP Endorsement, challenger is well-mannered veteran TP type.

The Orange County Republican Central Committee (OCGOP) denied its endorsement of a Republican incumbent, Rep. John Campbell.  To win the local GOP endorsement Campbell needed a 2/3 majority of the elected central committee members.  His effort fell short by just one vote.

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Campbell sort of made things worse by suggesting that since he had more time to focus on issues as a member of Congress that he was the recipient of better and higher quality information than those in the audience who doubted the wisdom of his decisions.

–Diary on Redstate.com

Newt campaign catches fire again, as Santorum surge hits plateau, Paul and Romney stall.

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I just bought a cheap-o HP PC with Windows 7 Home Premium. I like it. I like Windows 7. I fired up IE (which I do not like) to go fetch Microsoft Security Essentials, which I like a lot. So I type in microsoft.com, and I get spattered with some crap from MSN. Some kind of news, community, gossip, tabloid click-farming crap. At this point, my user experience needle swings sharply down

If you Google the words “rights”, the first entry will be to a wikipedia article.  That site is a tremendous resource, but it is a mixed blessing; that is to say it is a menace and a curse to those who do not understand it.

The Wikipedia entry on rights contains the following sections:

Contents

The section which got me off my duff this morning is the following,m which I reproduce in full:

A Claim Right Claim rights pertain most of the time to human rights and may … Continue reading →

I do not recognize the SCOTUS authority to quote itself further and further from the constitution.

I do not think that President Obama’s marriage and “career” will both survive the next year.   That is, I predict defeat (either by Dems or Reps!) or divorce, and very possibly both.

He is set up for a mental collapse (if it has not already happened), and the collapse of a bunch of other things.  He is loathed by much of the country, distrusted by Democrats, and seeks to enlarge his base through a series of potentially treasonous maneuvers including vote fraud of various sorts.  He is about to lose his AG who has been the key to burying the crimes of the President and his permanent campaign staff.

Signs to watch for are increasing isolation of the President by his staff, and more of the “separate … Continue reading →

Savings due to the uptake of ITIL best practices need not be confined to experienced practitioners or experts with established metrics.  After, money saved is not itself concerned with how you measure it.

As an asset manager, I am building on the successes of others before me and trying to avoid some of the pitfalls they found.  Lifecycle Management is a practice or discipline in which we seek proficiency.  Obviously, the advantage is that well-managed assets produce value more efficiently than poorly-managed assets.

So we have a number of issues facing us when we look at monitors for PCs.  In my inventory, I have a profusion of (no kidding) fifty different models of monitor, reaching back about fifteen years.  I used my mad SQL skillz to group a … Continue reading →

I find it difficult to write these days. I’ve little time, I’ve said it all before, and it probably doesn’t help. It’s difficult to promote one’s own writing based on “See? I wrote this a year ago, and sure enough it happened!” Heaven knows I’m wrong as well, on a number of things–well, conversation helps reveal points of interest, even if the conclusion is a whiff.

This very lack of motivation to write (internal and external) is something I spoke of earlier, in a post entitled “Uncomfortably Numb“.

It’s not getting better.

There’s enough room here to suspect that the Black Panther thing is a ruse, designed to get conservatives out of our chairs only to be called stupid for rising at intentional provocation.  This sort of thing does give the Obama administration breathing space to commit genuinely offensive and illegal acts. It pushes the boundaries of criticism ever further into lawless territory, so that we accept what is plainly wrong even while we wonder why we do nothing about it.  These are powerful psychological techniques which are normally resisted by a society’s powerful bullshit filter, which is evolved and honed over decades and centuries.  This is the value of culture, and what defines a people.  This is also why the Progressive left seeks to subvert every moral or traditional … Continue reading →