Comments on: THIS IS DEFINITELY A RANT!!!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:02:43 +0000

The pirate was always going to be short-term for the Billy Bowlegs Festival, and Talk Like A Pirate Day.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:01:20 +0000

Yes, Lady Min, that was one of the many things you had to memorize in school for years. Social Studies/Civics was once required to graduate from a public school. These days it seems that reading and math are the only requirements.

The thing is, that most of the people who are ignoring the basic principles of the government would have been in school at the same time we were, so, at one point, they knew what these things meant. They are practicing willful ignorance.

As for the header – some times you just get tired of arguing the obvious.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:54:38 +0000

OT: I didn’t name it, Kryten, and it is an informal way for people to get some extra links for their work.

I agree that this “national security” garbage can’t be explained away by ignorance. The Obama people are terrified of being labeled as weak on defense and national security issues, which why they won’t do what they should be doing. They fail to understand that their approach is extremely counter-productive and hurts US credibility and trust in the world.

The US is only strong and safe when we abide by our own laws and principles. Caving in to the paranoia of the neocons only strengthens the terrorists. The guys who wrote the Constitution knew this. They specifically said that giving up freedoms for security does not work.

It’s time to just give up on the old leadership and look for something new.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:05:10 +0000

Love the rant AND the new header! (although I did dig the pirate theme) [rq=3392,0,blog][/rq]When in Cambria...

By: LadyMin

LadyMin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:32:21 +0000

Ah yes… the Preamble to the Constitution. Way back when I was in grade school we had to memorize it, both written and spoken. For some reason I can still recite the Preamble, word for word. Occasionally I will do so just to be annoying. Makes me wonder if the Constitution is still taught in the same detail that I learned it. Because it certainly doesn’t seem like it.

I like the new header btw.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:32:02 +0000

It’s good for the soul to have a good and legitimate rant now and then. 🙂 I’ve had a few…

Good rant Bryan, and you know I feel the same. I’ve posted a few comments on the USA Constitution. I understand the context and I also understand the enormity of what was achieved given the different backgrounds of the individuals involved and the history of the time it was created. Nothing like that could be done today in any Nation. That, I am certain of! The USA would truly be an amazing Nation everyone could be so proud of if Americans even understood half of the Constitution and what it truly means. I certain most don’t even understand the preamble. Ignorance is truly bliss I guess for some (in a fools paradise).

Arabic is strange in that, for example, a word can have different meaning depending on it’s position is a sentence. One of my jobs in the ME was to create an Arabic/English translator for the MilInt people I worked for. It was hellishly complicated even with two Arab/English linguists and a library full of reference books! Would you believe they wanted the software for this written in COBOL??! No way in hell! We did it in Prolog, was the only s/w language at the time that had any chance of working with the complex structures and rules required.

From what I’ve been reading around the place… I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Greens & Marijuana Party get a big slice of the vote in ’12. 😉

The more Obama does things like side with the GOP on issues such as releasing detainee records etc and doing what the Bushmorons did and claim everything is a sensitive national secret, the more it’s just the same old *business as usual*. Like the old saying… ‘New clothes, same sh*t underneath.” 😉 In fact, it’s even more dangerous now, because everyone knew Bush was a fool and an idiot with foot-in-mouth problem. Obama is seen as sane, intelligent and personable. It’s easy to laugh at a fool, and it’s easy to agree with a man who makes sense.

PS: CommentlLuv Bryan? 🙄 *sigh* 😉

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:55:45 +0000

You know, and I know where this is going to lead, Badtux. There is going to be another protest vote, as happened in 1980 and 2000. If the Democrats don’t start representing the people who elected them, they may find out that the Republicans, or Greens, or some other group will start getting elected.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:51:47 +0000

Vowels within words in all of the written Semitic languages [Hebrew, Arabic, etc.] are assumed unless expressly included for clarity. Consonants have a customary associated vowel sound, and if that is the sound, there is no point in including it.

Thank you. It is taken from the National Archives jpg of the real one.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:49:01 +0000

I feel your pain. I’ve done the same rant more than once :-). Unfortunately, far too many people either JUST DON’T GIVE A SHIT or fatalistically shrug and say “there’s nothing to be done”. *WRONG*. Every single one of these bastards is in Washington D.C. because We The People voted their asses there. Corporations didn’t vote them into office — corporations can’t vote. We The People did — and we can vote their asses OUT of there too, but most folks are too lazy, too complacent, too bought, or have allowed themselves to believe the lie that “the government” is some dictatorial imposition upon America rather than something that We The People voted into office and can damn well vote OUT of office if we just get off our fat lazy asses and do what it takes to be free citizens of an actual functioning democracy.

And now I’m frothing at the beak again, but what can I say, one good rant deserves another sympathetic rant, eh? Later :-).

– Badtux the Rantastic Penguin

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:28:41 +0000

btw, i love the header. [rq=1601,0,blog][/rq]New favorite blogs