Monday, November 15, 2010

Here's a fine idea: if you don't like being criticized for destroying property

and threatening lives, change the definition of 'violence' so it doesn't cover attempted manslaughter/murder by people you like.
As some lecturers at Goldsmiths College in London have pointed out, the “real violence in this situation relates to the destructive impact of the cuts.”
Which, of course, means you trying to destroy a building and kill people is perfectly understandable and allowable. Yeah.


Why isn't Mexico rich? Let's see... corruption on a level to make Chicago envious, a level of racism that's downright spooky, a socialist government(also see 'corruption' above), there's a start. I once told daughter "Look at Cuba: rich soil, year-round growing seasons, people not afraid to work and Castro & Co. took all that and made everybody hungry; that doesn't just happen, you have to work at it." Same applies to Mexico, except Mexico has huge natural resources, too.


I'd heard about this mess in other places before:
Middle class children in the south of England are suffering from the '17th century disease' rickets as parents cover them in sunscreen and limit time outside in the sunshine, a leading doctor has warned.
Lots of kids don't get outside to play much anymore; add to that "If you let your kids get a sunburn THEY'LL GET CANCER!!!" and other such bullshit, and you have even more problems.


Unrelated to news but still neat, I picked up a new flashlight in Tulsa. Not much bigger than the AAA battery that powers it, machined aluminum, LED lamp and three modes: low, medium and high. And the high is 80 lumens and it'll run at that for about 1.5 hours. Off a AAA battery. This stuff has moved ahead so fast and far...

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