Thought for the day:

From “The Velveteen Rabbit”

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by
side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does
it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

“Real
isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that
happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just
to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It
doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes
a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break
easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved
off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very
shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real
you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

“I
suppose you are real?” said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not
said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin
Horse only smiled.

“The Boy’s Uncle made me Real,” he said. “That
was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can’t become
unreal again. It lasts for always.”

–Margery Williams

You’ll either understand, or not. 

But, being cops, they are excused from wrongdoing.

Police in Fort Worth, Texas, are blaming “poor lighting” after two officers went to the wrong home in search of a possible burglar and ended up shooting a 72-year-old man dead in his garage.

Why?

They should be charged with manslaughter, at a minimum. Second degree murder seems even more appropriate.

But the police (and the union) will defend them. They were just “doing their Job” and they needed to “make sure that they went home safe”.

of the “Opposition”

First they’ll get your passwords without you knowing.

Then they’ll send illegal material to you and open it using your email password. Or, using your email and password, send something containing an illegal item

If the attachments contained, say,espionage items, government secrets or child porn, you are screwed. Especially if they “originated” from your email.

And you don’t have any idea that they are doing it until the authorities kick down your door and arrest you. Yes, I am sure they will have a warrant this time. After all, the proof is right there in your email, and internet history, isn’t it?

But the behavior of the “Justice” Department under Eric Holder would not leave such actions unthinkable, now would they?

Think I am crazy? Maybe I am.  But I’ve been called that before. I could actually be crazy….But I think I am not.
 
Best thing to do is upgrade your passwords to include both upper and lower case letters and a special symbol, such as !,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,) etc.

But if the NSA works at it, they are gonna break your password.

You can, if using Gmail, have them send a secondary login (text)to your phone, but I don’t know if this would help against the NSA.

Yeah, I am paranoid (and maybe crazy), but then again, I was paranoid when  I said that the NSA was watching your cell phone and reading your email a few years ago….Wasn’t I?

Watch your back. and your email.

I’ve been pussyfooting around the race issue for a while.

Never could come up with the words to say what I wanted to say.

And, while there are issues with racism and racial bias in this country, there seems to me to be a disconnect…..

This says it well. Read it. Tell me where he is wrong.

There are many advantages for black people, if they are willing to take them. Hiring preferences, scholarship preferences, grants and other incentives that just simply don’t exist for the rest of us.

Of course, one of the big barriers to such incentives and advantages is that you cant’t be a criminal. Can’t have a criminal record. Can’t be a drug user. Gotta behave and be a decent person. Might even help if you didn’t speak with such an accent that most people cannot understand you.

If that is bias, or racism, then I just don’t see how to help.

If your whole lifestyle is based on being a criminal, taking whatever you can get today, and never having a thought for the future….Then you cannot ever elevate yourself in this society. At least not the one which I live in, and which many complain that they are restricted from.

Again: Read this. Pass it on. Tell me where the author is mistaken.

All of this.

all the links

watch all the videos.

think.

As goes Detroit, (with a Democratic Government) so shall go the country with the sme type of government.

(and yes, I expect that we will have at least another 4 years after Obama, as the RNC can’t seem to get it’s head out of it’s ass….)

You got palns for when your neighborhood looks like Detroit? We are heading that way.

So Eric Holder thinks that we should cower in fear and run at any threat.

Never defend yourself or your property.

He would perhaps best be served by going to another place, like, perhaps, England, where the people are sheep and evil rules the night and much of the day. Where criminals heve no fear and where decent people are not allowed to defend themselves.

I don’t want to live in a place like that….A place where I have to run from bullies and threats. Where retreat is the order of the day.

When the police retreat, the perhaps I will consider it.

When Holders bodyguards stop carrying firearms, and he runs away from every threat (when possible) then I’ll consider following Holders advice.

(And somewhat disingenuous) that the media and the anti gun crowd is seeking to use the Zimmerman trial to dismantle the “Stand Your Ground” laws that 22 states have enacted. The Sunday Morning propaganda news and discussion shows are all featuring it. As re the Papers. (not that there is a plan here).

SYG had no, zero, none, nada bearing on the trial of Zimmerman.

There was no need to use it as a defense.

SYG says that you have no duty to retreat. Period.
It is hard, if not impossible, to retreat when you are being straddled and pinned down while being beaten.

But….”never let a crisis go to waste”. So they are conflating Self Defense with Stand Your Ground.

And, sadly, many people are too poorly informed to be bothered to understand the difference.

And the media is, of course, complicit in the confusion.

Ya gotta love it when someone posts something foolish (or mistaken) on their blog, then, when called on it, edits their blog and then says that their point is still valid.

All because they can’t be bothered to learn the facts.

Just Sayin’

The US landed 2 men on the moon. An achievement that culminated a program that employed many men, spend a great deal of money and took many years. It was, and still is, a wonderful achievement.

Today, we have, essentially, no space program. No drive, no funding.

We choose instead to spend our money on welfare and other “social programs”.

These programs don’t advance human knowledge and intelligence, they undermine it.

They don’t push the pinnacle of human achievement, they create lazy fat stupid people.

Because the country chooses to spend its money somewhere else, and its effort somewhere else, we shall fall behind in the space race to the Russians, the Indians and especially the Chinese.

But we will have bred and nurtured several generations of lazy, unproductive, stupid fat people.

Maybe someone will find a use for them. Perhaps as spaceship fuel.

 .And shoot them.

And the reportage is terrible:

Two dogs that behaved aggressively toward officers were fatally shot by police Wednesday, officials said.

Here, however, is the police report. Note the statement that the “coyotes” were not aggressive towards the humans.

+++++++++++++

It took 4 cops to kill 2 Huskies….8 shots at close range.

Bet I could take the 4 cops in less than that, either with a rifle or a pistol.

Just sayin’.

I think the officers need a bit of training, at best. I really think that they need to be fired. With that poor judgement, do we really need them on the street?

But they are the Only Ones who need to be armed.