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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 ∙ 8:12 pm EDT
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Then again, I’m the one who was scrolling through the list of the top new free apps in the Android app store that Google a while back absurdly renamed “Play.”
Somewhere way down the list I saw a Super Mario ripoff game in which the mustachioed plumber is replaced by Barack Obama. A couple of scrolls further down was “Kick the Obama,” which I gather to be like the 2004 “Slap the Candidates” game I remember loving so much, except that apparently only Obama is available to abuse. Personally I’d rather get to kick Harry Reid’s face as well, or John McCain’s keister.
On both games there were, as you might imagine, reviews that addressed the political slant expressed by their respective themes, but most dealt with quality—game play, ad density, and the like.
Remember when subjecting the President of the United States to cartoonish violence was the epitome of (before 2009) patriotism / (after 2009) treason?
Maybe we’re almost back on an even keel. Maybe.
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I have never received a legitimate email from a .biz address. What I have gotten, is a lot of spam.
The great thing about having your own email domain controls is, you can write your own filters onto the server. So, effective now, .biz emails will be merde-canned before they reach my inbox.
I expect any relief to last only until the spammers realize how easy they are to block.
Corrupt Bastards
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Each Man* is an individual before God and before the Law, and is to be judged and to pay the consequences for his own actions and no other’s.
Each Man has the right to live, and to defend his life by whatever means he deems necessary.
Each Man has the right to acquire, own, use and dispose of his own property.
Each Man has the right to adhere to the dictates of his own conscience, to express those dictates, and to order his life after them.
Each Man also has a duty to respect these rights in others, to refrain from infringing them, and to help defend them from infringement. All rightful Law is founded on the protection and aid of these rights and mutual duties.
No Man has, nor can be given, the authority to infringe these rights in others if he does not accept the same infringement of his own. Nor does he have, nor can he be given, the authority to absolve himself nor anyone else of these duties. No Man has, nor can be given, the authority to diminish these true rights by the artifice of declaring new, false rights.
*(A Man is any adult of the species Homo sapiens sapiens, regardless of sex, distinct from the common noun “man” which is the male counterpart of “woman.” Masculine pronouns and possessives are used in this context to apply to both men and women.)
Any questions?
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The truth begs nobody's pardon
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But a link may be about all I can contribute to Jeff’s fundraiser. A family member got a much-needed operation but immediately learned he needs another, and his $900 co-pay on the first came due.
Because for some reason free health care isn’t as cheap as we’ve been told.
Unexpectedly.
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Although I found it odd that reports claimed Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s blown-up, shot-up and run-over carcass had “too many bullet holes to count”—as a former inventory auditor I assure you, in a finite space there cannot possibly be too many of anything to count, especially if you’re being paid by the hour—I do have to say this:
The police officers who confronted Tamerlan and his brother in the wee hours of Friday morning, atempting to apprehend the Boston Marathon bombers, demonstrated a degree of marksmanship we don’t normally see from police officers in pitched battles of that sort. Good for them.
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I’m content to let other people make fools of themselves trying to play Sherlock Holmes by interpreting unverified reports about incomplete evidence in the Boston Marathon bombing. They’re less entertaining, anyway, than the agenda-driven speculists who have openly hoped that the culprit turns out to be a corn-fed American gun-worshipper who votes Republican and has a Sarah Palin poster over his bed.
Both types are less entertaining than the little god-king’s reaction to the defeat in the Senate of a sneaky gun control bill—a reaction that earned him a new nickname. Whenever Barack Obama cries, God creates a cuddly kitten.
The fertilizer plant explosion outside Waco, however, is pure tragedy. In between prayers for the Boston victims, pray for the Texas ones too.
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...the more it stays the same.
Perusing various webcams scattered across the western states this morning, I note that Great Falls, Montana and Deadwood, South Dakota are recently covered in snow, as are multiple locales in Wyoming. Past the Ides of April there is yet another winter storm.
Yesterday during a stand-up in Cheyenne, TWNBC’s Mike Seidel assured viewers this was normal—Cheyenne, he pointed out, has been snowed upon in every month of the year, even in July not many years ago.
Funny how all the catastrophic global climate changings haven’t changed that. Oops, he must have forgotten TWNBC personnel aren’t supposed to refer to “climate” when discussing cold weather.
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One upside to the delay in getting the mower in over here to start civilizing the grassy areas is the recent discovery of a particular weed in the big meadow between the house and the public road.
As a descendant of Highland Scots I am pleased to find big, mean-looking thistles sprouting out there—with stiff, spiny leaves and just the sort of distinctive, bonneted flowerheads that adorn the emblems of so many Scottish institutions.
I still need to mow out there, but I think I’ll see if I can’t avoid cutting down most of these fierce plants. Those too near the edge of the driveway or between it and Wife of Slog’s weather station will have to go, but if they’re safely away from human ankles I see no need to attack them.
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The Freehold
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The Freehold has a much bigger grass area than the erstwhile Castle McGehee does, and both should have already been mowed by now.
Until today our riding mower has been in the garage at Castle McGehee—waiting first for the ground to dry out from last winter’s downpours, then for the mower to start when I turn the key. Finally I gave up on the old battery and bought a new one at Home Depot, only to discover that it really does matter which side the positive terminal is on. So I exchanged it and installed the new battery today, hoping to mow the yard at Castle McGehee, then put the mower on the trailer and bring it home—perhaps with enough time to start knocking down the shagginess here. We’ve got a little bit of lawn in front of the house, but also a large grassy area between there and the road and a couple of other spots of grass in the back; one of these is now fenced in for the sake of Dog of Slog, without a wide enough gate for the riding mower. It would need the services of a long-neglected walk-behind.
Thus, I planned to load both mowers on the trailer when I was finished mowing, bring the rider here, and then take the walk-behind to be checked out and, if possible, made useable.
But, see, here’s the thing. when I go to use the riding mower I never think to check the front tires. Very shortly after I began mowing, one of them started to come off the rim.
Now, I’d worked myself to a frazzle trying to install the wrong battery, and then successfully installing the right one. Removing the offending wheel myself and taking it for service, as I’ve done before, was not in the cards.
So now both mowers are at a mower service shop and neither house’s lawns are getting mowed anytime soon.
They will be mowed.
If it’s the last thing I do.
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