- The technology world is full of people who want to be artisans and craftsmen. Unfortunately, what we need are more mechanics and janitors.
- It is rather difficult to do research for one book while the characters from another book are yelling in your ear. There may be a slight deviation from my planned order of publication.
- Death by Powerpoint is preferable to Death by Project Planning.
- Either the truck in front of me on the drive home was brining the road in anticipation of snow tonight, or someone just cleaned out a septic tank.
- Did you ever notice that very few of the people who say “I would have joined the military, but I can’t imagine being told what to do all the time.” are self-employed?
- For the record, I do not care why you didn’t join the military, because I don’t care if you joined the military.
Cynical Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on January 20, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/20/cynical-musings-3/
Good Man Gone
One of the odd things about this new-fangled world we live in is that we have the ability to sorta get to know someone and like them without having much, if any interaction with them, much less meet them face to face. There are a lot of people who I know from a few comments and a whole lot of writing, and who I would love to sit down and share a meal with.
Zach Hill, author of the Minimum Wage Historian page, has been on that list for a long time.
Friday, Larry Correia, who had the pleasure of knowing him in real life, announced that Hill had passed away. He leaves behind a young wife, his family, and a long line of friends and people who liked his writing and thinking.
I can’t eulogize Zach the way that Larry and others have done, but I can say that I regret not meeting him and I will miss the smiles and nods his writing brought to me.
Zach’s friends have set up a donation site for Zach’s family, and I’ve chipped in a few dukats. If you have it to spare, I’m sure any donation would be appreciated.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/18/good-man-gone-2/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/18/todays-earworm-694/
This Again?
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. — Thomas Jefferson
Thanks to Tam, we find out that the Obama administration and their minions in Congress are trying to get a bill passed, which mirrors the the efforts the State Department made last year to make publishing information about weapons a violation of ITAR. This would make the publication of things like reviews, specifications, and manufacturing / maintenance data a crime.
If they can’t find one way, they’ll find another, it appears. Yeah, the quote above has become a cliche, but it rings true today. If they can’t get their way through Congress, they’ll do it via executive orders. If they can’t get it that way, they’ll do it through regulations. If that is thwarted, they’ll go back to Congress.
Around and around she goes; where she stops, nobody knows.
Please, reach out to your Senator as soon as you can. Tell them what you want them to do about this bill, and what you expect of them when it comes to your rights.
Please, join and support a group that fights for your rights, and get involved.
They’re not going to quit. Neither should we.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 14, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/14/this-again/
Cynical Musings
- Last night, the President and First Lady invited a few bleeding-heart meat puppets, a gun-grabbing parasite, and an empty chair, which apparently symbolized the President’s father’s involvement in his formative years, to listen to him give an inconsequential speech.
- With all due respect to Governor Hailey, the ‘siren call” of anger is attractive because a lot of us are tired of picking Jack Johnson or John Jackson, and a little bomb throwing makes for a little hope that things might go a different way. Not saying I want Donald Trump in the Oval Office, but I do want someone who’s willing to punch the opposition in the nose.
- I better get points for refraining from telling a person I talked with today that their mama needed to be slapped for not being diligent about birth control.
- If you’re buying $600 worth of lottery tickets and putting it on a credit card, please don’t get pissy when you hear my eyeballs roll into the back of my head.
- Taking the ‘winnings’ from your scratch-off ticket to buy a Powerball chance is not ‘reinvesting’.
- The news says that 27 cents of every dollar spent on the Kentucky lottery goes to the state for scholarships. By the time overhead, administrative costs,
theftmagical disappearing money, and the governor’s criminal defense fund take their cuts, 8 cents goes to scholarships. Don’t you feel better?
Posted by daddybear71 on January 13, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/13/cynical-musings-2/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 11, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/11/todays-earworm-693/
Musings
- I learned a couple new things this weekend:
- Turn on a movie he likes and hasn’t seen in a long time, then tell him that he can watch it with you when his room is clean, and he will finish in record time.
- Take away every piece of electronics owned by a teenage girl and tell her to clean her room to earn them back, and her room will not only be done quickly, but also better than it’s ever been done before.
- Three of my four football teams played in the playoffs today. This makes for a good day.
- Boo learns words he shouldn’t repeat at school when he sits and watches the Vikings with me.
- If your team loses a critical game because of your stupidity, you should have to run laps around the stadium while the fans throw empty beer cans at you. Just saying.
- This is not a dig on a player who makes an honest mistake. This is for the jackasses who decided to hand a close game to the other team because they’re jackasses.
- We had our first french toast emergency this weekend. After a long stretch of warm weather, the temperature plunged, the rain froze on the roadways, and snow covered it. I expect to have to saddle up the mastadon to get to work tomorrow.
- I think Derby might have started life with a family that had a baby. Girlie Bear pulled an old baby doll out of her closet while she was cleaning her room and Derby immediately started wagging her tail and wanting to sniff the baby.
- I guess we’re a strange family. When Boo came to us to complain that the blade in his toy sword was loose in the hilt, I suggested he play with his gladius until I can repair it.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 10, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/10/musings-178/
This I Believe
- I believe that there are few things in life better than a big pot of chili made on a cool fall afternoon.
- I believe that coffee should be made the way I like my women – strong and sweet.
- I believe that if you are a man of military age (18 to 55) and you are “fleeing a war zone” without accompanying and supporting relatives that are not men of military age, then you are not a refugee. Rather, you are, at best, a coward, and should be turned around at the border of said war zone and sent back to defend your home or die trying.
- I believe that the Supreme Court erred when it ruled that rape does not call for the death penalty, either of an adult or a child.
- I believe that if I show someone the courtesy of minding my own business, then they should reciprocate.
- I believe that if you publicly advocate for the curtailment of my rights, then you don’t get to do business with me and my family anymore.
- I believe that there are few things cuter than puppies, kittens, and babies. At other people’s houses.
- I believe that most of the world’s problems could be fixed if the opposing parties were locked in a room with a bottle of bourbon and a pot of hot coffee until they worked their issues out.
- I believe that any private company that says “I’ll leave your city if you don’t build me a new X” should be given a firm handshake and a hearty farewell.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 9, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/09/this-i-believe/
News Roundup
- From the “Air Assault Parenting” Department – Spanish gynecologists have developed a speaker that is designed to stimulate the development and maturity of children as they grow in their mother’s womb. While the concept of using music directed at an unborn child is nothing new, their approach is. You see, rather than just putting a pair of headphones on the mother’s belly, this speaker is designed to be used internally. Yeah, so that happened. Ladies, repeat after me: good nutrition, healthy exercise, rest, prenatal medical care. Everything else can wait until after the little one is a cute bundle keeping you awake at 2 AM, and an infant doesn’t care about Mozart or the Winnie The Pooh wallpaper.
- From the “Going Places” Department – A young girl in Iowa showed a lot of personal initiative the other day when she penned a note to her mother trying to convince her that Christmas break had been extended. I look forward to her 2056 presidential campaign.
- From the “Flag On The Play” Department – A Buffalo Bills fan set himself on fire by jumping, not once, but twice, across a table which had been set aflame during pre-game festivities. By ‘festivities’ I mean ‘Getting liquored up and having a wonderful time’. Team doctors cleared him for play, and he started at fullback later that afternoon.
- From the “Whoopsie!” Department – A dummy Hellfire missile, which the U.S. sent to Spain for a training exercise, has ended up in the hands of the Cuban government. It appears that the missile was mis-sorted when it was shipped back to the United States, and somehow got put on a plane to Cuba while transiting France. No word yet on when the errant missile will return to the U.S., although sources report that it has developed an affinity for rum and good cigars. A spokesman for workers at the Paris airport reportedly told journalists that he ‘farts in their general direction’ when questioned about the incident.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 8, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/08/news-roundup-250/
Quote of the Day
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears…in…rain. Time to die. — Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, Blade Runner (1982)
Posted by daddybear71 on January 8, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/08/quote-of-the-day-161/
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