Friday, December 16, 2011

I'm not sure I'd trust myself, let alone half-wit, with this kind of power

No, I didn’t watch it, the debate that is. I went with some friends to stuff food baskets last night. Then we headed to a local sports bar to watch Thursday night football. We gave up that activity when the score reached the 41-0 mark. We came back to the compound for a nightcap that went until 2 am with two IN boys arguing about the virtues or lack there-of, of Bobby Knight.  IN people are funny about basketball.  I was supposed to be the tie breaker.  You'd have to plumb the depths of the Marianas Trench to imigine how little I care about college basketball.  But here's my tie breaker - Knight went to the Ohio State University, so I sided with Bobby.

I haven’t had time to even look too deeply into who the pundits say won last night. It’s all much ado about nothing. Voting starts soon, and voters can begin telling us who they think the debate winner was with their votes.

There are two items in the news this morning that need more attention than the 35 Republican candidates each claiming to be more like Reagan than the others.

Item 1: Apparently the US Congress has declared the United States is a battlefield in the war on terror. In doing so, they have established that American citizens on American soil can be snatched up by the military, held indefinitely and without charge. This is the kind of crap that gives Ron Paul a fighting chance to win the Iowa caucus. If Ron Paul never had to declare a stance on Israel, Iran or other foreign policy, he’d be ahead of the field by double digits.

Now, who do you suppose this in-Justice Dept. led by a clueless buffoon would be asking the military to round up? Certainly not the merchants of “workplace violence” like Maj. Hassan. And not voter intimidators like the New Black Panthers. The guy who’d be squarely in the sites of this DOJ would be Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Item2: That’s right. The DOJ has just released a three year investigation on America’s toughest sheriff, Joe Arpaio. And guess what they found? Raaaaaacism and bigotry. I know. It’s shocking that it took this menagerie of @$$clowns three years to put out a report that they had already written before they asked the first person a single question.

So we’ve got congress OKing the military to snatch and grab US citizens on US soil and detain them forever without a charge and the wad calling Arpaio a racist and bigot for enforcing AZ law. Do you suppose these two might be connected? Do you suppose these things might have a chilling effect on political debate? After all who is the Commander in Chief of the military who is going to be doing the snatching? One Barry the boob Obama. And who is it that is supposed to be protecting us from kidnapping and unlawful detention? One Eric the wad Holder. Come on now, does anyone with half a brain think that is going to end well for America?

And remember it was Republicans in the house who went along with this BS. So you cannot even expect them to come to your defense. When you hear this stuff, you have to give Ron Paul a serious look. I am well aware of Paul’s tinfoil hat foreign policy, but my goodness this stuff is just creepy. If this crap isn’t rolled back, foreign policy won’t matter, because there cannot be an American foreign policy if there is no America.

What passed me by today:

Missing your favorite tv show: Remember when you had to dash home to catch the one show you'd never miss on tv? You don't have to do that any more.  First came the video recorder, but you couldn’t even figure out how to get that damned thing to stop flashing 12:00 in a rhythm that you swear was programmed by engineers to mockingly say F*&k when it was lit and you when it dimmed. You had no chance of ever correctly recording your favorite show. Now you can go to Hulu or place a four digit code that corresponds to your favorite show in your DVR and it’ll record that code anytime it comes up on any channel. If that weren’t fool proof enough, and let’s face what is, cable channels record the shows for you and all you have to do is look them up.

Floppy then 3” discs: I don’t have any of the 5” floppy discs anymore. I do have an entire box of 3” hard discs, mostly with pictures on them. I’m looking at my computer there’s not even a port to load such things anymore. I’m going to have to get some after market drive to read the things if I ever want to get anything off them. Sort of like dad’s 8 track bolted under the ashtray.

Walkman: How many of those things do have lying in drawer somewhere? I Have a walkman with cassette player, with a CD player, and an mp3 player all wadded in drawer with wires everywhere. I-pod killed them all, mercilessly.

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