Some stuff I’ve been collecting while being quiet:
- Jake MacGregor is back again. Chapter 34 and 35.
- Ron Paul: speaking truth to knuckleheads (it’s harder than speaking truth to power).
- Another example of how government helps lower medical costs and make life easier for people.
- Jacob Hornberger: Blaming America.
- For fans of the DullHawk flag (aka “Time’s Up”).
- One of those good news stories. About a gutsy woman and her big, gutsy horse.
- A rare act of justice
- One reason I’ve quit focusing on stuff like this is that no matter how creepy it gets, you know next week it’ll just get creepier. And we already know the best defense against it.
- And a rare apology for an act of injustice (and doesn’t Susette Kelo have a great, great face — full of experience and character?).
- James Altucher: “How to Kill Stress Before it Kills You.”
- Okay. Lighter side. This is for us arty types or people who just enjoy testing their personal perceptions and abilities. The 100 Hue Color Test. How acute is your perception of subtle color differences? Tip: Take the test in natural light and when you’re not tired. (I got this from a kaleidoscope fan, of course.)
I did very well on the hue color test, which surprised me. I have a bit of trouble my favorite colors – blues/purples. That was cool, thanks for the link.
Oh, that’s a grand horse story! What a champ! I still miss my horse, Chief, after more than 30 years. He was an American Quarter Horse with an attitude! Not quite that big at 16 hands, thank goodness, but close enough. I’m glad she was able to buy him.
Wow, ok, I totally blame my screen for my color score….I’ll have to find a different one to take the test again before I completely panic…..
I loved that gutsy story, and I’m amazed that horse stood up to all that……
I’m glad Ms. Kelo got to hear the words, she deserves that and much more.
The minion of the nazgul is vile and disgusting. The story starts with a direct quote, which the ghoul later confirms:
“Had I known all of what you just told us, I would have voted differently.”
But he doesn’t mean it. He is a filthy liar who serves greater liars. He serves the state, and only said that when forcefully reminded that he once lived, with a family and home.
Long ago he was seduced by power, and little by little he gave up his humanity, compassion, even the ability to read and understand the plain meaning of simple, declarative language.
Now he lives in a netherworld, interacting with our world only to further erode the chains that once bound his masters. He causes great pain and fear, and produces only destruction. Thanks to him, there is absolutely nothing left where homes once sheltered proud families.
He no longer understands sickness, privacy, property, liberty, or life itself. He in incapable of a “a heartfelt apology,” because his heart is black and bitter, and he feels nothing.
So when confronted with his claim that he would have voted differently, he shows that he was lying:
“I think that our court ultimately made the right decision insofar as it followed governing U.S. Supreme Court precedent.”
In other words, it was worth the senseless destruction of an entire neighborhood, Constitution be damned, the law be damned, justice be damned. He serves the nine nazgul.
I think this is important enough to repost:
Rome didn’t collapse in a Day
http://sorrycomics.blogspot.com/2011/09/rome-didnt-collapse-in-day.html
65 on the color test (in bad, but natural lighting and a dumpstered LCD display). I guess that’s pretty good, but it’s frustrating that they didn’t show you which squares were out of order, they just gave you a number. The worse in my class got 1200+, so I suppose I can’t complain if the scale goes from 0-1200.
On the asthma inhalers, I have to wonder if the chlorofluorocarbons is the excuse for the switch from epinephrine to albuterol. There’s the meth angle with epinephrine, and there’s the “regulatory capture” aspect with the prescription only medicine. Surely if the feds can make a popular acid reflux drug OTC the moment that competing generic drugs are allowed to be made and sold, they could do the same for albuterol inhalers. That is, if the feds worked for us and not big pharma.
Here’s my rant on over-the-counter Prilosec from 2007, if anyone is interested.
I got an 8 on the color test. Monitor was bought at Salvation Army. Eyes have corrective lenses and need a new prescription. But I guess they are OK for color.
I got a 19 on the color test